A VICTORIAN 18 CARAT GOLD MOUNTED WALKING CANE MARKED FOR HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF TECK, the tapered malacca cane mounted with an gold knop, inscribed H.S.H.DUKE OF TECK, London 1881, by Thomas Johnson II, terminating in a brass ferrule.

90cm long

Notes:

Francis, Duke of Teck, GCB, GCVO (Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander; 28 August 1837 - 21 January 1900), known as Count Francis von Hohenstein until 1863, was an Austrian-born nobleman who married into the British royal family. He was the father of Queen Mary, and thus a great-grandfather of the Queen Elizabeth II. Francis held the Austrian title of Count of Hohenstein (Graf von Hohenstein), and the German titles of Prince (Fürst) and later Duke of Teck (Herzog von Teck) and was given the style of Serene Highness in 1863. He was granted the British style of Highness in 1887.

Dimensions: 90cm long