Q: How can I sell a walking stick carved in the shape of a snake ... sporting, ivory or animal - you name it. But his sticks start at 100 years old, making this stick recent.

displayed 46 hand-carved canes at the junior high’s hobby program in 1940; and made and gave away walking sticks made from wood from Kearney’s first school building and also from a Christmas tree.

Combination walking ... and has a carved elephant head, complete with ivory tusks and inlaid with small ivory dots. The head of William Shakespeare adorns the grip of another ebony stick.