Accession Number: 2014.13.4
Description: Six-segment folding long cane; steel cable in clear plastic tubing, locked at cast aluminum handle by lever which pivots into handle; handle secures to top of cane with hex key; aluminum segments are enameled in acrylic metal-flek white epoxy, bottom segment is enameled red; bottom of each segment flares to fit over conical shape of the segment below; straight handle, enameled black, pewter colored braised wrist loop with a sliding black plastic tube to hold cane when folded; red nylon standard pencil tip with screw eye to secure bottom end of the cable assembly; gold label is illegible.
Height: 54.25
Width: 1
Depth: 1
Date Made: ca. 1973
Place of Origin: Woburn, MA
Credit Line: Gift of the Carroll Center for the Blind, 2014.13
Subjects: Blindness Rehabilitation Orientation & Mobility Canes for the blind
Dimension Notes: overall, open
Made: Hycor, Inc.
Material: Aluminum, nylon
Updated: 10/23/2015