JOHN WILKES BOOTH CANE. With an ivory handle and silver mount, engraved "John Wilkes Booth/from/Laura Keen/65". Mounted in a shadowbox with another cane, belonging to Sir Henry Irving, with chased gold handle, monogrammed "WW", and "HI" on the tip of the handle, given to Irbing by the actor William Warren.
Estimate $1,500-2,500
PROVENANCE: Richard Oliver''s, Kennebunk, ME, lot 308, Boothbay Theater Museum Collection, June, 1990. Mrs. E. Harrison Eudy and her mother.