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.)"
