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Court Justice Walking Stick, NV - Reno,Washoe County

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:1,200.00 - 2,500.00 USD
Court Justice Walking Stick, NV - Reno,Washoe County
IMPORTANT NOTE ON BUYERS PREMIUMS:

Lot 100 to 343 have a premium of 15%.

The rest of the sale is 19.5% as noted in the listing.

Lot Pick Up: Holabird-Kagin Americana,
3555 Airway Drive Ste #309,
Reno NV 89511,
Sunday - December 9, 10am-4pm
1890 - This is a cane once belonging to The Honorable R.R. Bigelow. It measures about 33” and has a gold head that is engraved, TO HON. R.R. BIGELOW DIST. JUDGE on the handle and BY OFFICERS OF HIS COURT RENO. NEV. DEC. 1890. There is a taped repair at the tip that appears to be holding on the metal foot. It was in 1890 that R. R. Bigelow, then District Judge of Elko County, was elected to succeed Justice Hawley, defeating J. H. MacMillan, and upon the resignation of Justice Hawley was appointed to fill out the unexpired term.

In 1891, he was an associate justice on the Nevada State Supreme Court.

He served the full term of six years and then retired to enter private practice. He died at San Francisco in 1907, in his fifty-ninth year. From the memorial to Justice Bigelow, found in 29 Nevada Report, we quote: "Judge Bigelow in his professional and private life exemplified the highest type of patriotic citizenship, of the skilled and honest lawyer ; in his official life, of the able and upright judge."

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