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An Austro-Hungarian silver gilt & hardwood walking cane inset with sapphires, 19th century in date.
The floral cast handle set with twenty sapphires in three rows, with a crowned cypher inscribed 29/VIII 96. It has a hardwood shaft with a brass ferrule on the end.
Add an extravagant element to your daily life with this practical walking cane.
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 96 x Width 9 x Depth 2
Dimensions in inches:
Height 3 feet, 2 inches x Width 3 inches x Depth 1 inch
Our reference: 09323
Sapphire
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminium oxide (α-Al2O3) with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, copper, or magnesium. It is typically blue, but natural fancy sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green colours; parti sapphires show two or more colours. The only colour that sapphire cannot be is red – as colours corundum is called ruby, another corundum variety. Pink coloured corundum may be either classified as ruby or sapphire depending on locale. Commonly, natural sapphires are cut and polished into gemstones and worn in jewellery.
They also may be created synthetically in laboratories for industrial or decorative purposes in large crystal boules. Because of the remarkable hardness of sapphires – 9 on the Mohs scale (the third hardest mineral, after diamond at 10 and moissanite at 9.5) – sapphires are also used in some non-ornamental applications, such as infrared optical components, high-durability windows, wristwatch crystals and movement bearings, and very thin electronic wafers, which are used as the insulating substrates of very special-purpose solid-state electronics.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 96 x Width 9 x Depth 2
Dimensions in inches:
Height 3 feet, 2 inches x Width 3 inches x Depth 1 inch
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