Boar War prisoner of war walking stick, the handle carved in...

Estimate

£40 - £60

Boar War prisoner of war walking stick, the handle carved in the form of a seals head and etched to shaft 'St Helena 1901 POW', 90cm long with rectangular wooden plaque carved with crest and St Helena Prisoners of War 1900 

Provenance:  Hicks Beach Estate.  The majority of pieces in this collection originate from Williamstrip, Coln St Aldwyn, family seat from 1788 to 2008 and thereafter Mill House, Coln St Aldwyn.  Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, succeeded his father as 9th Baronet of Beverston in 1854.  He became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1864 and served twice as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902.  In 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount St Aldwyn and in 1915 became the first Earl St Aldwyn.