This is a bulletin board for news relating to walking canes, and arms & armour.
It’s purpose is to inform our client collectors of current activities in these two collecting worlds. If you have any relevant information you may think is suitable to put up, please e-mail it to us at info@antiquecanes.com

Canemania 2008: www.canemania2008.com

It is with great pride and excitement the Official Canemania2008 Committee announces that we have been able to arrange to be in Paris at the perfect time of the year. Share your love of canes with other collectors, dealers and world experts. Plan to spend time before and/or after exploring the fascinating historic sites of France. The museums, architecture and dining are incomparable. The Sixth International Cane Collector's Conference is the perfect follow-up for the very successful Canemania 2006 held in Napa Valley, California. Travel and hotel accommodations will be at your discretion but allow enough time to enjoy all that Paris has to offer. Canemania2008 is nearing full capacity for participants. Full registration with payment to confirm your space in this exciting international event is still available. Attendance has been set at 150 Conference Participants (not including Guests at Thursday Night’s Welcome Reception or Saturday Night’s GALA). At this time we have space available but anticipate from the response to date that all 150 spaces will be filled in the very near future. Please visit the website at www.Canemania.2008.com for full conference details and registration information.

"Bastoni Materia Arte Potere" - the exhibition catalogue

Finishing in September of last year was the highly successful cane exhibition at the Santa Maria Della Scala museum in Siena, Italy, organised by cane collector Renzo Traballesi. For those of you who missed it or were unable to attend we have for sale copies of the exhibition catalogue - this is a must for any cane collector as the quality and production of the images is truly excellent. It runs to three hundred pages plus and is in full colour, and the pages are approx. within the A4 format. Published by Priuli & Verlucca and priced at £30.00 plus p&p

here at last! - "Stick to Canes" Part 1 & 2 out now on DVD

In the early 1990's we produced two video tapes illustrating over two hundred and thirty fine quality antique canes, with the view of sharing knowledge in the subject by showing some of the highest quality items to be found by the collector of today. “Sticks to Canes - Part One” we cover the earlier period from 1550 to 1840 and includes a group of the early ivory pique canes, similar period early silver ones, ornate gold examples, a group with early porcelain handles, a few historical items including a cane belonging to Lord Byron and another of Napoleon III. On show to be viewed also are some early system canes including a magnificent Admiral’s telescope cane by Elliot, London, with its shaving set, lamp, writing implements, drawing tools and wax candle; a group of watches, some early flintlock gun canes made by Klett and Jones, and a few of the earliest sword canes produced. There is a selection of early musical items including violins, clarinets, flutes etc. Among other rarities are three nutcracker canes and a Martin microscope, complete with original it’s slides. “Sticks to Canes - Part Two” we cover the main period for the collector of today, from approximately the 1840’s and ending with the era including the world war of 1914. In this section can be found a group of fine Marine whalebones including architectural examples, a group of fine ivories, cased gold mounted tortoiseshells, medical items including hearing aids, a group of amusing wood and ivory articulated animal heads and many system canes including watches, sword and gun canes, a large selection of mainly silver cigarette, pipe, lighter and snuff canes. There is also a group of Faberge canes and handles from his St Petersburg and Moscow workshops, Folk Art items and many more unusual pieces. By revising this project into a DVD we bow to the march of technological progress and hope that the collector of today will gain some further insight and that future collectors will be inspired to start collections in this fascinating subject. The duration is for Part 1 1:37 and for Part 2 1:44, and the DVD is available in both European and American formats, professionally filmed and recorded - priced at £20.00 each film

"Canemania 2006"

"Canemania 2006" held in Napa, USA was a great success and fun was had by all who attended. The Committee who put together the conference did a superb job, with great attendion to all details and providing an excellent platform of events and discussions for the cane collectors who attended. Our thanks go out to them as we all know the mountain of work that goes on behind the scenes it putting such an event together. More news on this item to follow........