Musical accompaniment: Got My Mojo Working by Ann Cole. It’s criminal that so few people have ever heard of Ann Cole. What a voice she had!
This 1914 photograph by August Sander is called Jungbauern (Young Farmers) in Westerwald, a mountainous region in western Germany. Look how sharp they look!
I hope canes will make a comeback. Some people need them but they’ve often been used as an accessory. They give a person a look of distinction.
Hood Museum at Dartmouth University
old spirituals 
i have to agree they do look good!
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They would just be used as a weapon these days. As a matter of fact, I was on a jury a few years back and this drug dealer had a sword cane leaned against his side door to his garage. The sword inside this cane was so long and scary it made my skin crawl. His whole garage was a meth lab with shelves full of weed.
I agree the men of years gone by did look dapper with those canes!
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Whoa is that a real product? Or did the drug dealer have to have someone specially design his sword-cane? There can’t be that big of a market for those things. Sounds like he created a whole ambiance in the garage!
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I had never seen a sword cane before I was on that jury. I have no idea where one is made or if it is illegal in the US. We saw detailed pictures of that garage and it was unbelievable. In California you only have to be in possession of drugs to be found guilty by law. It was his house and he had the drugs in his garage, therefore, guilty. I don’t know what the judge sentenced him to because the jury was dismissed before the judge passed sentence. BTW, the sword cane was placed on our jury table for us to inspect. This was not a nice man that was on trial.
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