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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Grandfather's Gadget Cane
Guns International #: 101821923 Seller's Inventory #: AF1787
Category: Collectibles - Western - Clothing
Seller's Information
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Seller: Cisco's Gallery
Company: Ciscos Gallery
Member Since: 9/2/16
First Name: Sam
Last Name: Kennedy
State: Idaho
Zip: 83814
Country: United States
Phone: (208) 769-7575
Fax: (208) 769-7575
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 663
Total Number of Listings: 6912
Seller: Private Seller
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
Payment Types Accepted: Visa, Mastercard, certified funds, cashiers checks, money orders, and personal checks (items shipped when cleared). 3% surcharge on firearm purchases made with a credit card.
About Us: Cisco’s Rare & Exceptional deals in one-of-a-kind pieces that define America and the Wild West. The collection is both diverse and expansive, including historic antique western firearms, artifacts, antiques, fine art, and western home furnishings. Our store, located in scenic Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is filled from floor to ceiling with pieces that spark romantic tales of the western frontier. Cisco’s inventory of authentic Native American art and artifacts is among the finest in the world featuring Navajo rugs, baskets, beadwork, totems, pipes, southwest jewelry and more!
Description:
The segmented partridge wood gadget cane with 12k gold pencil holder (sans the original wood and graphite pencil) in gold fittings bearing British assay markings for 12k gold stamped CC, perhaps the maker's mark for Charles Cooke, is wrapped in a wide gold band engraved 'Warren Delano Jr. 1 Broadway, New York.' Throughout the better part of the 19th century, a man named Warren Delano Jr, (1809 - 1898), Franklin Roosevelt's maternal grandfather, made, lost, and made again, a fortune in shipping, mostly by smuggling illegal opium into China. Throughout much of that same period, the illustrious address of 1 Broadway, New York (and the rest of lower Broadway) was headquarters to many of the world's largest shipping companies. So much so that those city blocks were informally referred to as 'Steamship Row.' Together, the name and the address on this cane's plaque make for a compelling supposition as to exactly who the original owner might have been. Size: 35"
SOLD