And even if your own two legs don't yet need help, keep your eyes peeled for those umbrella stands often tucked in a corner of your favorite antique store. The odds are good there's a cane or two ...

A: Antique canes are a fascinating specific category of collecting. They were made to house musical instruments, whiskey decanters, weapons, guns, scientific instruments and more. The variety is ...

Canes go all the way back to the Biblical `thy rod and thy staff they comfort me,’ probably back to the caves, where they were used to fend off wild animals,” says Henry A. Taron, antique cane ...

His new bumper animation shows him fly fishing, after all. But no – toward the end, we pan out to see they are – antique canes! Antique canes? Not confirmed: One of these antique canes could ...

Canes were used not only to aid in walking, but also as part of European and American fashionable dress in the 18th and 19th centuries. Many canes had an extra function, too. Some held swords ...

In towns across New England, antique canes or their replicas are bestowed on the oldest residents. By Jenna Russell Photographs by Sophie Park Reporting from Rye, N.H. For more than a century ...

Peter Vrinios makes candy canes atop his family’s antique candy table at the Fudge Factory in Bradenton Beach. Vrinios’ family has been making candy for four generations and has been putting ...

They're highly collectible and come in a remarkable array of variations. Antique and vintage canes like these have both utility and character. Let's start with the high end. Perhaps the finest ...

The ritual has endured, if not as robustly as it first began. Dozens of the now-antique canes have been lost or stolen. Some have been recovered after yearslong searches. And those that remain are ...