Silver lizard

Silver handle cane with a lizard on it.

Ebony shaft. France, around 1900. Bibliography: C. Dike, "La canne objet d'art", ed. de l'Amateur, Paris, 1988, p. 315, ill. 38; catalogue of the exhibition "La canne et ses mystères", Musée de Carouge, Geneva, 18 March - 31 May 1998, p. 121, cat. n° 274.