This museum quality ancient cane is crafted from possibly the most unique material I use. The handle is a piece of wood from an ancient kauri tree that has been buried in the ground for 40,000 years! That's right, this wood dates back to the earliest cave paintings at approximately 40,000 BC. For perspective, The Bering land bridge between Alaska and Russia broke apart approximately 20,000 years ago and the Woolly mammoth went extinct 8,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. It's hard to fathom 40,000 years! Wood like this is called "sinker" wood. A tree lives a typical life span but when it dies and falls it is covered in peat moss or falls into a bog, both of which create an oxygen deprived environment that perfectly preserves the wood. Ancient Kauri is the oldest "workable" wood in the world, the only wood that is older is petrified wood which is no longer wood but stone.

The shaft is curly maple wood, light, bright and beautiful. Curly maple has a strong chatoyance and has always remained one of my top favorite woods. The divider and end piece on the handle are bone from likely a whale or another large marine mammal, but possibly even from the woolly mammoth. It was found on the sea bed of the North Sea. It is ancient bone and its cell structure is beautiful. Total length measures 38" and can be shortened to fit.

Ancient Kauri's most notable grain feature is its fantastic chatoyance, which is a dynamic quality that unfortunately can't be captured in pictures.


M A T E R I A L S

Handle – Ancient Kauri from Northern New Zealand
Divider –Ancient bone
Shaft – Curly Maple from New York
Rubber tip