A good collection of novelty carved briar and other wood walking sticks and canes, the majority...

A good collection of novelty carved briar and other wood walking sticks and canes, the majority with comical caricature heads 19th century and later comprising an impressive grotesque head cane of an old grinning man with glass eyes, another with tonsure style hair and inset bone eyes above a rusticated shaft, another of double headed form formed as grotesque bearded man wearing a top hat reversing to animal head, each with painted eyes, and another with crooked handle, the end carved with a smiling face with inset glass, nine further canes and sticks carved with exaggerated bearded or grotesque heads, some with inset glass or bone eyes, two carved horn grotesque head canes with 'beak' noses, and a similar carved wood cane with 'beak' nose, together with a cane carved to the handle with the figure of a moustachioed gentleman, the pommel formed as his bulbous hat, a carved cane with bud type rusticated handle, a stained wood folding cane, the crook handle with beaten gilt metal mount, and a folding shooting stick, the largest, 111cm long, the shortest, 83cm long (20) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing