Jeweled silver walking stick depicting the head of an eagle, signed Tiffany, United States 1890.

United States circa 1890.

An important Tiffany walking stick, bearing the name “H. Le R. Emmet,” once owned by Herman Le Roy Emmet, a prominent member of 19th-century New York Society. Emmet’s ancestors included Thomas Addis Emmet, an Irish lawyer and politician, one of the country’s most esteemed attorneys and attorney general of the state of New York in 1812–1813.
The L-shaped pommel in 925 sterling silver, embossed and chiselled, depicts the head of an eagle. This piece is an unusually decorative version of a standard Tiffany walking stick pommel, which he nicknamed the “Nast Eagle.” He drew inspiration from a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast, a 19th-century illustrator, political caricaturist, and editorial cartoonist who lived during the Civil War. Tiffany used Nast’s eagle on a silver-pommeled cane that was gifted to him by Tiffany himself in 2024. It was the prototype. of this knob. Ebony wood barrel with metal ferrule. Hallmarked Tiffany & Co., New York, USA circa 1890.

36” – 90 CM H 3,75” – 9 CM L 1” – 2,7 CM D

REF: M6171