Tradewinds April 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM The Salem Waterfront Hotel in historic Salem Mass.

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Presented by Trade Winds Auction Co

Takes place on 4/26/2008

At Trade Winds Auction Co, Salem Waterfront Hotel, Salem, MA

OUR 32ND ALL-CANE AUCTION. We are in our 16th year of doing all-cane auctions and have gathered a wonderful array of antique canes. We will be offering 197 lots of carefully selected high quality pieces, with many rare and uncommon examples. Additionally we are including a continuation of pieces from the late Philip Hampton's fine collection. The sale will be preceded the evening before, April 25 at 6:30 PM, by a special event and private auction preview at the Salem Waterfront Hotel. It will be our eighth pre-auction event. It will feature "The Cane Gang", an extraordinary group of professional musicians from Maine who will entertain us with a program of music actually played on canes. The Cane Gang will make you look at canes in an entirely new light. For carved ivory figural canes, highlights include: A phrenology head, three horses w/gold, a Roman Empress, a German hunting motif cane, a lady acrobat, an eagle, a terrier head, a Moor, three horses w/silver, an Iv. & wood monkeys, Shakespeare, an "L" terrier, a rats & frog, a wood & ivory monk, acrobats, a dog & boar, a fist& ball, a chain of bears, a hare, a horse, a greyhound, a pike & trout, a green frog, a man w/hat, a fox as the hunter, an iv. & silver mastiff, an "L" tiger, an iv. & bronze lady, a mastiff, a reclining dog, Mephistopheles, tiger on stump, a man w/curly hair, a tiger & dog, a vulture, a German student's cane, a Noh masks, an alligator, a whale w/ squid & ship, a claw, a salamander & frog, a mice and treasure bag, a circus horse, a dog w/chain, a bear w/cubs, a wounded buffalo, a claw w/tiger eye egg, a baby elephant on ball, a man w/bug, Robert Burns, a horse & bulldog, a chain of frogs, an ebony & iv. madonna, a monkey on drum, a jockey & horse, a lady's leg, Queen Victoria, a small horsehead, a skull & snake, a tau w/monkeys, a rat, a mime, a Sunday stick, a turtles w/ snake, a stylized bird, etc. For decorative canes, highlights include: A pique w/ sil. & enamel, a Webb cameo glass, a Saint-Cloud porcelain, a Tiffany enamel w/diamonds, a California gold quartz, a jade ball, a shibayama, a rose quartz w/Essex crystals, Art glass w/garnets, rose quartz ball w/crystal, a sil. w/turquoise enamel, a 1792 pique, a pistol grip damascene, shibayama insects, an iv. & snakewood, case tortoiseshell w/ agate, Iv. & sil. w/one-step mallaca, a rock crystal w/amethyst, a ball & stem cloisonn, a tortoiseshell w/jewels, a Japanese mixed metals, a Sevres porcelain ball & stem, an amethyst w/crystal, Cyril Ritchard's iv. cane, an iv. & malacca Salem cane, a sil. niello, a pique w/tulips, a cloisonn tau, a Middle Eastern damascene, a sil. w/citrine, a Tiffany silver, an amethyst w/gold overlay, Art Nouveau sil w/vines, a sil. w/turqoise stones, an early gold & malacca, a Chinese sil. knob, a boar's tusk, etc. For gadget canes, highlights include: A firescreen/sunshade cane, a 1692 pique pomander, a pepperbox, a Remington lg. doghead, a sword w/quillons, an Asprey gold & sil. flask, a rosewood flute, an iv. & malacca sword, a brass cheroot, wood cat w/artic. mouth, an Holuska watch, a Chinese eating cane, a brass bugle, a telescope w/pouch, 1826 stag. sword, a cigar cutter w/match safe, a billiard cue, a Remington percussion, a beer & wine measure, a faux bamboo sword, a breech load curio, a microscope/telescope cane, a cloisonn watch w/keys, a gold Swiss watch, a stag. sword w/snake, a tortoiseshell w/dagger, a cat automaton, a compact cane, a draftsman's cane, an iv. knob sword, an easel, a skull automaton, an English lord's sword, a semi-crook dagger, an enamel powder-puff, a telescope, a shoemaker's measure, a horn crook sword, a cig. case w/match safe, a Uke cane, a Brigg pencil w/whistle, a Day's percussion, etc. For non-ivory figural canes, highlights include: A porc. man w/hat, a sil. Art Nouveau gargoyle, a sil. maiden in net, a sil. Art Deco eagle, iv. & sil. dog, a large sil. snake, a small sil. snake, a sil. maiden w/fishes, an English sil. faces, an ebony & sil. blackman, a vulture, a sil. fish, a sil. eagle head, a wood alligator, silver dancing cherubs, a sil. angel, a sleeping dog, a cricket player, a stag. demon quellor, a wood blackman, etc. For nautical canes, highlights include: A ball-in-chamber, a crook w/wood inlay, wh. iv w/inlaid rays, a turkshead knot & w/bone, a wh.iv.fist, an MOP inlaid nautical, wh. iv. polygon, an all-baleen crook, wh.iv.polygon w/tortoiseshell, wh.iv. knob on wh/bone, etc. For folk art, political, historical, & relic canes highlights include: An Andrew Jakson gold presentation, an etched Gettysburg cane, N.J.governor's cane, a Constitution relic, a folk art w/boxer, a Scottish folk art prize, an E. Smith GAR folk Art, an iv. Odd Fellows, an Odd Fellows w/ sil. rings, a 1904 Balmoral folk art, a St. Louis etched cane, a U.S.S. Maine relic, a Bowdoin cane, a folk art snake w/MOP, a steamer Pewabic relic, a folk art w/bathers, etc For accessories and books, highlights include: A lift-top cane case, and the Stein book, a signed original Boothroyd book, Stock und Knauf, by Coradeschi, and Cane Curiosa by Dike. A 15% Buyers premium will be added to the hammer price of each lot. A 3% discount will be subtracted from the hammer price of each lot for any buyer personally attending and purchasing at the sale. Telephone bidding, absentee bidding, either written or electronic, do not qualify for the 3% discount. 851 1294 1124 1313If you wish to order a fully pictured catalog, please call us at (978) 526-4085, $40.00 U.S., $45.00 outside. (MasterCard or Visa accepted). An online presentation of the catalog is available at www.tradewindsantiques.com.