190. Square Bamboo Day Cane -Ca. 1900 -Fashioned of a single square bamboo shoot with an integral L-shaped handle embellished with white metal cap and

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Antique Canes and Walking Sticks

By Kimball Sterling

Dec 8, 2018

Set Reminder 2018-12-08 11:00:00 2018-12-08 11:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : Antique Canes and Walking Sticks https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/kimball-sterling/antique-canes-and-walking-sticks-3643
A collection of 200 canes and walking sticks. Many different categories are presented in this single owner European collection Kimball Sterling kimballsterling@earthlink.net

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  190. Square Bamboo Day Cane -Ca. 1900 -Fashioned of a single square bamboo shoot with an integral L-shaped handle embellished with white metal cap and collar and an iron ferrule. Characterized by a pleasing simplicity, it aged literally to a golden turn with a beautiful, clean and warm toned surface. Here the impossible seems possible and we face the difficult question to answer: Does square bamboo grows anywhere in the world, could it be that this shoot was grown in a square mold, was it carved in this edgy shape or is it eventually a fantasy of nature? Whether this query can be answered or not does not diminish the appeal of this intriguing item. In any case, this cane was for long years the property of a well-known character of the cane collector’s community from the 1970s, who always awakened the curiosity of every interlocutor with his square bamboo cane and triggered exciting and never-ending walking stick conversations. -H. 6 ¼” x 5 ¾”, O.L. 34 ½” -$100-$200 -A Chinese secret: According to a Chinese proverb, „we cannot live without bamboo for a single day“. This becomes apparent when you land in Guangzhou and embark on your adventurous journey to the country’s interior. In rural districts in the south of China, whole villages, bridges and irrigation systems are built of bamboo. Whether for furniture, baskets, pots or curtains, everyday life without bamboo would be unimaginable for many Chinese people. There was a time, so the story goes, when almost the entire capital of Siam floated on bamboo rafts. That is not hard to believe when you see China’s groves of giant bamboo - which attain a height of almost 40 meters, compared with our tame garden varieties. Within the space of just over two months, a shoot of the Mao bamboo can grow to 20 meters. But even the fast spreading Sasa flowers only every 20 years and some species, so they say, only every 100 years. Wherever it grows, the evergreen bamboo is regarded as a giver of long life. In China and the Philippines it is a symbol of luck, in India a token of friendship, in Japan it stands for purity. The inhabitants of the Andaman Isles even believe that humankind emerged from a bamboo stem at the time of the Creation. There is a charming legend in Japan and Malaysia according to which a small, beautiful woman lives inside every bamboo stalk. This spirit of the plant blessed with eternal youth only appears when her home is destroyed. Bamboo is a symbol of good luck.
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