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Walking may be an unfashionably slow mode of transport in today’s time-pressured world, but lengthy periods spent on foot in past centuries were made more pleasurable by a vast array of walking aids. This material is now seriously collected and a cluster of cane collections have appeared on the market of late.

US-based Skinners sold the 124-lot Josiah H. Beeman collection in Boston on October 4; Bonhams Knigh…

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