I present: "Ice Age" A museum worthy cane made from a collection of three wonderful pieces of nature. The handle is leg bone from the extinct woolly mammoth, an ice age megafauna that went extinct about 10,000 years ago. It was excavated from the Siberian permafrost where it has been trapped in the ice. It was partially fossilized so its certainty a very old bone. But, this leg bone's walking days are not done now that its a "walking cane"!

On the end of the handle is a captivating and large opal stone. I purchased it from a personal collection so I'm not sure where it was mined but my thoughts are that its from Australia. It has all of the pretty effects opal is well known for, chatoyant flashes of colors and light as its moved about. Its predominantly blues and looked to me light old wind swept glacier ice, the kind a woolly mammoth would have been familiar with.

The wood shaft is also special, is the densest wood in the world, Lignum Vitae, or Guayacan. There are several closely related species that all carry the common name of "lignum" and all are dense, but this wood is the legend itself, the densest and rarest. A highly protected species, only very old stock remains, a privilege to be able to offer.

A perfectly functional cane, but the opal would need care to protect from impacting the floor.

The cane has a respectable heft that could be burdensome for users of small stature.

Total length measures 38 inches and can be shortened to fit.

M A T E R I A L S

Handle: Woolly Mammoth Leg Bone from Siberia

Divider: Aluminum

Shaft: Genuine lignum vitae from Central America