MARCH ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 27 March 2018 - 9:30 AM start
A walking stick made of shark vertebrae with an ivory handle carved with Maori designs. The 65 graduated vertebrae interspersed by horn discs
Realised: $2,200 plus premium
Lot Details
the silver ferrule embossed with a koruru mask head, the handle with tiki figures on a notched pattern ground. Provenance: Bequeathed to our vendor from his aunt who died without issue. Oral history has it made by a Scottish marine engineer named McLean of Akaroa, Banks Peninsula. Length 930
