Classical Walking-Sticks Help

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Most useful indeed - regrettably I cannot carve wood but it so happens that the husband of my best friend (a dear lady and a fellow invalid -- we meet up to ''talk shop'') is a fine carpenter and carver so the credit will be his. I have been ''best guessing'' and have settled on a dark wooden stick (as near to sham-ebony as possible), tall, with a carved papyriform head and brass, copper or NuGold fittings -- a collar below the head, one in the middle and a long ferrule, to be treated as an Egyptian ''antique''. Another excuse to discuss the changes in Roman society, links with the East (e.g. the Iseum at Pompeii is a fascinating compound of Roman and Aegyptian elements) and particularly the paradox of increasing quasi-Oriental luxury in the Imperial period and also reverence for the Republican past. I would actually be fascinated to see someone doing an extremely vulgar impression of the ''nouveau riche'', the jumped up freedman, the Trimalchio, ignorant, boastful ruddy-faced and weighed down with ''bling'', clad in a gaudy synthesis.

I shall certainly post pictures as I put together a Roman costume.