Flower-picking cane, also called garden cane, the blackened wooden knob is made of a ring allowing to operate scissors placed at the end of the cane under the ferule. The shaft is made of bamboo. At the top of the pommel is a small cleaning brush. The knob is signed "Cueilleuse Dubois, AD Brevet français et étranger", the scissors signed "Adrien Dubois S.G.D.G Breveté". L. : 129 cm

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