Indian of colonial whip handle inlaid with bone and metal The decorative wooden whip handle measures 13 ins in length and 1½ ins in diameter at the wider end. There are traces of old leather fixing at the other end and the handle is carved to enable a firm grip. The family from whom this came believed it was Indian . It may have been a camel whip and is probably 19th century. There are faintly engraved scratch initials to the inlaid brass at the end
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