Art Nouveau Day Cane

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The 2022 Cane Masterpiece Auction

By Kimball Sterling

Dec 3, 2022

Set Reminder 2022-12-03 13:00:00 2022-12-03 13:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : The 2022 Cane Masterpiece Auction https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/kimball-sterling/the-2022-cane-masterpiece-auction-11295
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• Lot Description
  -Ca. 1900 -L-shaped silver plated handle fashioned in a stylish shape and embossed with decorative Art Nouveau elements. Simplified forms from nature, berries, leaves and sinuous curves helped the inspiration for this handle, which is personalized with the engraved initials “DG” of its first owner. In addition, the handle is struck with a “DRGM” mark for “Deutsches Reich Gebrauch Muster”, which means that the model was protected by law and “ALPACCA” for the so-called “New-Silver”, a sturdy copper, nickel and zinc alloy with a precious metal, silver-like bright shine. -This handle forges a link between late-nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts aesthetics and industrial production, and, with a one of a kind quirky grown oak branch shaft and a metal ferrule, plays all the artistic alchemy of canes. -The previous owner, a legendary collector from Illinois North Shore, who favored this cane for long years in his extensive collection, always wanted to see an erotic touch in the natural structure of its shaft. He often successfully triggered with it enthusiastic and never-ending walking stick discussions. -H. 4 ½” x 2 ¾”, O.L. 37” -$200-$300 -D.R.G.M., or sometimes DRGM, is not a German patent. It was instead a way for inventors to register a product’s design or function in all states within Germany. -From 1891 to the beginning 1950’s, products manufactured in Germany might have been stamped with this D.R.G.M. designation, if the manufacturer opted not to pay the outrageous patent fees that Germany was charging, but instead chose to copyright their product’s intended way of use, or design. This copyright was initially for a period of 3 years, with an option to extend it for another three additional ones. This gave the copyright owner a maximum of 6 years protection. -German patents were outrageously expensive, and many manufacturers could not afford the fees to register a full patent (fees for German patents were 36 times more than American patent fees). Those that could afford a German patent, had their products stamped with D.R.P. or DRP, which stands for Deutsches Reichspatent. Such a patent granted the patent holder a full 15 years protection.
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