10. Silver Horse Head Cane -Ca. 1890 -Silver stallion’s head presented on a wider collar with a joining, integral and raise

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March Antique Cane Auction

By Kimball Sterling

Mar 1, 2017 - Mar 18, 2017

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  10. Silver Horse Head Cane -Ca. 1890 -Silver stallion’s head presented on a wider collar with a joining, integral and raised belt and buckle collar and fitted with a well streaked and richly colored rosewood shaft and a metal ferrule. The head is naturalistically modeled, finely hand chased and engraved with striking big glass eyes, pinned ears and a beautiful mane while the collar is chased in low relied with a Baroque shield engraved on one side with the initials of the cane’s first owner and on the other with a composition of riding utensils all against a floral background. It bears on the lower edge a Viennese hallmark besides an unidentified makers mark, survived in superb condition and above all is remarkable for the energy displayed. -H. 2 ¾” x 2“, O.L. 36 ½” -$1,200-$1,600 -The horse is surely the „aristocrat“ of animals domesticated by man. This book documents the origins of horse domestication on the Pontic-Caspian steppes some 6,000 years ago and the consequent migration of equestrian tribes across Eurasia to the borders of sedentary states. Horse-chariotry and cavalry in effect changed the nature of warfare in the civilizations of the Middle East, India, and China. But, beyond the battlefield, horsepower also afforded great advances in transport, agriculture, industry, and science. Rapidity of horse communications forged far-flung equestrian empires, where language, law, weights, measures, and writing systems were standardized and revolutionary technologies and ideas were disseminated across continents. Always recognizing this dual character of horsepower - both destructive and constructive - the politico-military and economic importance of the horse is discussed in the rise of Hittite, Achaemenid, Chinese, Greco-Roman, Arab, Mongol, and Turkic states. Following Columbian contact, Old and New World cultures are contrastively evaluated in terms of presence or absence of the horse. And Spanish conquest of the horseless Americas is seen as the model for subsequent European equestrian colonization of horseless territories around the planet.
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