Wooden walnut cane with bone handle, silver colored metal ferrule on top of shaft. 3.25 in long curved piece of bone tipped in a 1 in long tapered piece of wood. Bone is anchored to cane and join is covered by a tarnished metal band with a scalloped upper edge. Band is decorated with a duster of three upside down y-shapes marked to resemble rope. Section narrow; lengths of wooden cane as it narrows are: bottom tip .5 in, 10.75 in section, 9.75 in section. 8.75 in section, handle.
Tapered mahogany wooden cane with smooth dark finish. One and three quarter inch long golden brass cap/band at top of cane is engraved with a man's profile, President G. Cleveland, on top. 2.125 inch wide brass ferrule on bottom above .75 inch steel tip.
On side written longitudinally: Carried and presented to the L.C.H.S. by George W. Hensel, Jr. 1943.
Engraved horizontally: From Grover Cleveland to W.U. Hensel Easter Time 1893.
Engraving from Hensel to LCHS was a later engraving.
Wood walking stick or cane with silver tip and cap. Four panels with text alternate with four panels decorated with ornate leaves. 1.5 in metal band nailed on at the botton. One nail missing.
cap is engraved: "By the Union Fire Co. / No. 1 Lancaster PA / Presented to Rev. A. H. Shertz / Feb. 25th, 1865 "
Cane, wood turned in one piece with knob at top, copper colored metal ferrule at end. 1 in red metal band around the bottom tip. Wood at bottom. Lengthwise grain along the cane, narrowing neck before ball at top of cane. All a single piece of wood.
Wooden walking stick or cane, high luster finish over dark stained wood, 6 knobs on three sections of shaft, natural knob at top, missing tip. WIder rounded top grip tapers. Lack of smooth finish on 1 inch at tip of cane.
Wooden cane with metal tip, vine like pattern, accompanying tag reads, "Thornwood stick - silver inlay, formerly property of Walter Kieffer, grandfatther of Donald" Round branch with distinctive bark. Metal cylinder around lower end. Wooden peg exposed may indicate a missing piece at the tip. At 8.5 inches from teh top ar 5 parallel and wavy lines of wire flattened and attached diagonally, following the curvature of the wood.
Single piece of wood forms smooth 35 in cane with carved face whose hair becomes four long jointed appendages taht end in talons or claws gripping a head whose upward looking moustaches face's jaw is the tapered end of the curved handle. Lower tip is banded (.75 in W) and bottom is exposed wood. Pupils on cane face are tiny holes/punctures. On handle face, pupils are less deep with black in on them.
Letters carved into cane read KepKypa, indicating that object is from the Holy Land. Attached tag reads, "Made of wood from mount of olives in Holy Land, head of Christ and name, "Kieffer" carved by an armenian friend of Walter Kieffer (Grandfather of Donald K.)"
Simple turned wood cane with varnish. Slightly rounded, button like top.
tag reads, "Walking stick made from wood taken out of the first school house in New Holland, PA. Presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society by Mr. Charles H. Brown"
