Does anybody have ~$543 burning a hole in their pocket? Feel free to skip the anecdote...
I've been on the lookout for a multi-section hiking stick for a while now, and recently that desire was revived when I came across a certain rather quaint Victorian oddity--the "telescope" walking stick. Not "telescopic", mind you; no, no--these are canes that have a low-powered telescope secured by a clever mechanism into the head of the cane itself, to be deployed by a gentleman in the course of his pursuits; birdwatching, or hunting, or opera, or at the races. The long and short of that story is that I ended up ordering a pair of such canes, the one with a telescope, and the other with a compass in its head. They're both three-sectioned, so they can be unscrewed for packing. Alone they're sized like a cane, but my hope is that they turn out to be "modular" in a sense--that I can take the middle section out of one and add it to the other for a four-section hiking-length stick, that packs away for easy travel.
But the reason I came here was that during my quest I came across this;
http://www.walking-canes-sticks.co.uk/contents/en-uk/d39_01.html
A cane whose head deploys into a rather fine-looking smoking pipe! So the question once more; Does anybody have ~$543 burning a hole in their pocket?
I've been on the lookout for a multi-section hiking stick for a while now, and recently that desire was revived when I came across a certain rather quaint Victorian oddity--the "telescope" walking stick. Not "telescopic", mind you; no, no--these are canes that have a low-powered telescope secured by a clever mechanism into the head of the cane itself, to be deployed by a gentleman in the course of his pursuits; birdwatching, or hunting, or opera, or at the races. The long and short of that story is that I ended up ordering a pair of such canes, the one with a telescope, and the other with a compass in its head. They're both three-sectioned, so they can be unscrewed for packing. Alone they're sized like a cane, but my hope is that they turn out to be "modular" in a sense--that I can take the middle section out of one and add it to the other for a four-section hiking-length stick, that packs away for easy travel.
But the reason I came here was that during my quest I came across this;
http://www.walking-canes-sticks.co.uk/contents/en-uk/d39_01.html
A cane whose head deploys into a rather fine-looking smoking pipe! So the question once more; Does anybody have ~$543 burning a hole in their pocket?
