"Uke Kane" Ukulele Cane Walking Stick

This "Uke Kane" Ukulele walking stick was made around 1926, the paper label on the inside reads "UKE KANE PAT PENDING". Morris Rothman was granted patent #1,611,563 in 1926 for an ukulele concealed in a cane. It measurers 36 1/4" long and it is made out of sheet metal painted black with nickel plated end cap and tip. A 1927 advertisement proclaims  UKE-KANE latest novelty just out "A Walking Stick and a Ukulele Combined" and "You can carry your "UKE" with you at all times without the slightest embarrassment"  Remove a secret cover and cane becomes a "UKE" fretted and played like a UKE, advertised price was $3.50 and it even came in special colors for ladies. The four colors the cane came in were black, mahogany, brown and purple. It was strung up by using mandolin E strings for the outside and mandolin A for the inside and it was tuned G-F-A-D to tuner you were to place a coin in the slot of the tuning key and turn in the desired direction applying slight pressure. Play with a mandolin pick, add also states "Best results may be obtained by allowing portions of the instrument to touch any solid body".