This unusual material on a large size Cane-handle is 3,5 cm high x 9 cm to the side x 2,5 cm thick. It is extraordinarily carved representing a galloping horse, the movement of the mane and the gesture of his mouth suggests is on a race. The carver was lucky enough to find a sizable piece of mother-pearl without scum to obtain this masterpiece, the porosity and structure in layers of this material, makes carving difficult, only an expert can achieve it. There is a 2 cm high silver-collar with French marks and is on top of a stepped malacca shaft, ending with a bimetal ferrule. 

Evidence suggests that since Paleolithic times, human beings have made the horse an object of magic-religious veneration. Clever, curious, dexterous, the horse is like a human as a team-fellow and character. There are stories that tell of marriages and crossings-over between horses and human. * Book of symbols.