Walking Stick

1798/1802

FIDM MUSEUM & GALLERIES
Los Angeles, United States

Walking stick; simple oblong domed ivory handle set with metal ring to rosewood body; body tapers to metal point with squared-off tip; hole through stick with metal grommets one and one-eighth inches below metal ring; wrist strap not included.
Label: none
Date: 1775-1810

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Title: Walking Stick
Date Created: 1798/1802
Location Created: Europe
Physical Dimensions: L: 40 ¾″
Provenance: Originally belonged to Joseph Haydn (1732-1809); purchased by Betty Hummel, wife of Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837). See SC2010.947.24 for Letter of Authentication by Betty Hummel. Gift of Yvonne Hummel
Type: Walking stick
Photographer: Brian Sanderson
Rights: © FIDM Museum & Library, Inc. Image made available for limited non-commercial, educational, and personal use only, or for fair use as defined in the United States copyright laws. Users must cite the author and source of the image as they would material from any printed work, and the citations should include the URL “www.fidmmuseum.org”. For publication or press requests, visit http://www.fidmmuseum.org/about/rights-and-reproductions/ or email imagerights@FIDMmuseum.org.
Medium: Rosewood, ivory and metal
Object ID: 2010.947.2
Bibliographic References: Kevin L. Jones and Christina M Johnson. FABULOUS! Ten Years of FIDM Museum Acquisitions, 2000-2010. Los Angeles: FIDM Museum Publications, 2010.

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