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A Very Rare 19th Century Silver Watch Walking Stick
Yeats Country Antiques
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Yeats Country Antiques

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A Very Rare 19th Century Silver Watch Walking Stick

19th century
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A very rare 19th Century silver watch walking stick of exceptional quality. This exquisite piece is stamped with silver marks and in excellent full working order. The silver watch of circular form is fashioned into a handle with a carrying loop for a chain and winder with decorative fluted detail. The watch's moulded and hinged silver lid opens upwards to reveal a striking enamelled watch face with an hour and minute dial with classic roman numerals and an elegant small seconds subdial, in black against white ground, supported on a finely hand carved, tapering well figured mahogany walking stick.

Mahogany Type: 'Santos Mahogany'

Physical Dimensions
Height
93.3cm (36.73")
Width
6.3cm (2.48")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
Declaration

Yeats Country Antiques has dated this Silver Watch Walking Cane to the 19th Century.

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SA1133684
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A3858
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Description
A very rare 19th Century silver watch walking stick of exceptional quality. This exquisite piece is stamped with silver marks and in excellent full working order.
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The silver watch of circular form is fashioned into a handle with a carrying loop for a chain and winder with decorative fluted detail.
Yeats Country Antiques

The watch's moulded and hinged silver lid opens upwards to reveal a striking enamelled watch face with an hour and minute dial with classic roman numerals and an elegant small seconds subdial, in black against white ground, supported on a finely hand carved, tapering well figured mahogany walking stick.

Mahogany Type: 'Santos Mahogany'

Height
93.3cm (36.73")
Width
6.3cm (2.48")
Depth
5cm (1.97")
Date of Manufacture

Yeats Country Antiques has dated this Silver Watch Walking Cane to the 19th Century.

Reference Numbers
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SA1133684
Dealers Internal Ref
A3858
Yeats Country Antiques
Yeats Country Antiques
Sellingantiques verified Since Jan 2025

Fine period furniture, antique gilt mirrors and beautiful furnishings and collectables

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A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch.
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Archive I A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch.

A Very Rare 19th Century Silver Watch Walking Stick

Archive II A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch. View II
Archive III A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch. View III
Archive IV A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch. View IV
Archive V A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch. View V
Archive VI A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch. View VI
Archive VII A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch. View VII
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Yeats Country Antiques

Yeats Country Antiques
Telephone 00353 872644494
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The Vinery
Arundel Road
Poling
West Sussex
BN18 9PY
United Kingdom
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A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch.
A Very Rare 19th Century Silver Watch Walking Stick
Ref: SA1133684
A nineteenth-century dark wood walking stick featuring a polished silver spherical pommel with an inset watch.
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FAQs

A system cane is a walking stick that incorporates a secondary functional device within its structure, such as a timepiece, compass, flask, or measuring tool. Popular during the nineteenth century, these objects combined everyday utility with personal elegance.

These walking canes were traditionally constructed using dense hardwoods such as ebony, rosewood, or malacca for the shaft. The handles or pommels were often fashioned from hallmarked sterling silver or silver plate, housing a compact mechanical watch movement.

Authentic pieces generally display British silver hallmarks or maker marks stamped near the collar or pommel. The integrated watch movement typically features manual winding mechanisms consistent with nineteenth-century horological manufacturing rather than modern battery components.

Antique canes are frequently displayed grouped together in a vintage cast iron or ceramic stick stand positioned in an entryway or foyer. Individual decorative examples can also be mounted horizontally inside framed wall displays or arranged alongside leather-bound books in a study.

The wooden shaft should be wiped with a microfiber cloth and lightly treated with natural beeswax polish. The silver pommel requires careful hand polishing with a specialized silver cloth, taking strict care to keep cleaning liquids away from the delicate watch mechanism.
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