Here’s a claw handled ancient cane with dense, dark, and beautiful woods. The handle is ancient Red Gum wood from Australia, It spent 10,000 thousand years buried in a river bed! Slowly over the millennia being stained darker and darker by mineral exposure but deprived of oxygen thus preventing decay. Pulled out a few years ago, carefully dried, and today it works and feels just like it was cut from a modern tree yesterday! It's curl figured as well, very special! Though very dark this ancient red gum wood is also chatoyant and in brighter environments its lively grain comes to life and can be thoroughly appreciated. A black ebony divider and pins leads into a beautiful striped macassar ebony shaft. Cane weight is medium, good for daily use by most anyone. Total length measures 38" and can be shortened to fit.

The last image is of a red gum tree, an ancient one of a different sort, standing for hundreds of years. Inside the tree is my Australian wood supplier who left this tree along, he salvage harvests.

M A T E R I A L S

Handle – Curl figured Ancient Red Gum from Australia
Divider - Nigerian Ebony
Shaft – Macassar Ebony from Indonesia
Rubber tip

Every Gillis Cane is a photographed original, you’ll always receive the exact cane in the images.