Objects Database

Pair of ski poles/sticks

Accession Number

1057.2013.1

Object Name

Pair of ski poles/sticks

Created

26/03/2013

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

26/03/2013

Brief Description

Pair of homemade hazel ski poles with cane and metal baskets. Leather wrist straps. Metal tips

Materials

hazel, leather, cane, metal

Dimensions

!50(l)cms Circumference of basket 17cms

Number Of Objects

1 pair

Colour

brown

Provenance

Another set of homemade ski poles/sticks that,we are hoping, have been saved from the skip by soaking them in woodworm fluid for several days.
The mere fact that they are homemade helps date them pretty well as few were made after the Second World War, so possibly as late as the 1950's, but more likely 1930's and made from hazel chopped down in the local wood.
The baskets look like they may have been bought from somewhere like the Sportsman's Emporium - see opposite - or maybe recycled from another set.
These poles were part of the collection passed on by the Scottish Ski Club and, unfortunately, we don't know who the original donor was - thanks anyway, whoever you were.