ID 883925
Los 587 | AN AMERICAN GOLD CANE HANDLE BELONGING TO ANDREW JACKSON
Schätzwert
$ 12 000 – 18 000
CIRCA 1828
Cylindrical, modeled in the form of a fasces, the thirteen rods each engraved with the name of one of the thirteen original colonies, the straps engraved with the twenty wards and their representatives, one strap engraved Cut at the Hermitage, bordered at one end with a band of laurels, the other with a band of flowers and berries, further bordered at each end with acanthus and a band of thirteen stars, the top engraved with an American eagle, opening as a snuff box, the base with a later silver-gilt cover opening to another snuff box, originally the socket for the wood cane, each end later applied with monogram LC in old mine cut diamonds, in a later fitted leather case, signed on one star BROWN Eng.
4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) long
5 oz. 6 dwt. (165 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
For President Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845).
Likely Governor Lewis Cass (1782 - 1866).
With D. L. Lavender Antiques, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 31 January-2 February 1985, lot 96.
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, long term loan, 2009-2022.
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