Need A Cane?
In our house, everybody is busy doing their role in cleaning the space. . After she breathed her last breath, we gained possession over this place.This home has a sentimental value to us. This is where all of us came to celebrate special events – weddings, new beginnings, wedding anniversaries and a lot of blissful family gatherings. All of us saw the underground room needed numerous changes so we proceeded to cleaning it first. A lot of belongings that I saw were unknown to me – like what the thing was and what the thing does, where the object came from and who sent the thing. Clothing that I was dressed in when I was a newborn and toys that I held dear and played all the time when I was growing up every single one was there. Mother seemed to have stored every single one. My mom had hidden dad’s old World War II marine regimentals in the underground room too.
In the nook of the room below, kept among all the fishing rods, lures and tackle, there was an antique cane. The cane is derived from wood however I don’t know of what make. My mom’s brother notified me that it used by my great grandfather’s and that my uncle never witnessed my great grandfather without it. Buried from the back of my brain, my memory of my great grandfather was when he sat on the porch out front of the house. He placed his cane beside the chair.
The existence of canes have been here and there since a single human being came up with a decision to use it as support in hiking over irregular terrain. Ancient heritage of walking sticks goes back to King of France, King Louis XIV when he restricted their use to just the aristocrats, as he himself brought with him opulent and sticks with jewels. It was by the cane that a person had that men were judged in the early times. The cane indicated a person’s standing in the social order. A variety of them were very intricate, and were created by Tiffany and Faberge. The canes that Faberge made contained jade and quartz stones. Not so long ago, the cane of P.T. Barnum that was assessed for a quarter of a million dollars was being bought. Therefore, before you go disposing the junk, be definite that you are not holding a valuable antique cane that you considered as junk.
Canes had extra purposes as well, serving as a place to hide items such as a sword, umbrella, or firearm, and as a decanter. The friendship walking stick was what they termed it. The friendship cane held liquor in its slim and long cylinder while the two shot glasses was contained in the knob. In the canes’ heyday, almost 1,500 patents were recorded for canes between 1870 to 1915. During the time of the French revolution in the 1870s, razor blades or spikes in canes were frequent as it proved to be practical at that time. There were also other canes that held telescopes, fans and trumpets. Some also used their canes to store perfumes and opium. Each man who regarded himself a gentleman owned no less than three walking sticks. Canes were ‘worn’ by recognized people and some of them were US President George Washington, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of UK, and Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, two famous playwrights both from Dublin, Ireland.
As the world has transformed, adorned walking sticks are now suitable for the displays of private collectors and enthusiasts. Today’s function is preferably for extra assistance in our elder years or as a way of support following an injury. There are walking sticks these times that have additional ‘feet’ to make a more balanced base. They come in many lengths, materials and shapes.
The passionate period of canes is history, for you not often see somebody, if ever, carrying a walking stick for appearance or as a status symbol. Certainly, a walking stick is still significant as what my great grandfather used to have and so will be for other people who need the walking stick’s help.
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