Here’s a handsome eagle’s talon cane with dark and beautiful woods. The handle is a large piece of my ancient Red Gum wood from Australia, It spend several thousand years buried in a river bed slowly getting 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 yesterday. It's highly figured, some of the most figured ancient material I've ever acquired. Though very dark this ancient red gum wood is also very chatoyant and under bright light its lively grain comes to life and its gorgeous grain can be thoroughly appreciated. ( A couple of the pictures have a more direct light to highlight the grain, most of the picture are a diffuse light, how it might appear most of the time from a distance).

The divider on this one is subtle but special, flanked by silvery-grey titanium pins. It’s horn from the extinct steppe bison. The Steppe Bison was an ancient megafauna that roamed around the northern hemisphere during the last ice age. They also lived after the ice age, with remains being carbon dated to a few thousand years ago, therefore the cause of their extinction is debated. regardless, they are the ancestors of our modern day bison in North America. This piece of horn is certainty from the ice age, as it was excavated from the Siberian permafrost. It could be anywhere from 10,000 years old, to well over 100,000 years old. Likely on the older side since it was partially fossilized. In appearance it's a dark brown with a unique looking "grain" that can be seen clearly in brighter light and close inspection.

The cane is finished with a very nice ebony shaft about just as dark as the handle. It has tight stripe figured grain and broad fiddleback along its length, some of my best striped ebony. The ebony appears chocolate brown in most lighting conditions from a distance, but brighter light will reveal its great grain and a fine chatoyance. Its striped are actually more apparent in person than the dark pictures suggest. Cane weight is Medium, towards being heavy, 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
Divide - Steppe Bison horn, excavated from Siberian permafrost
Shaft – Macassar Ebony
Rubber tip

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