Length: 99cm (39in)
Silver mounted ebony. Parade cane with ball finial and of tapering form sleeved in silver with banded twist decoration, inscribed along its length Marne, Mons, Ypres, Somme, Pickhelm, Italy, India, Arras, Scarpe and Albert. Maker’s name of ‘Potters / London’. Hallmarked London 1930.
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A sterling silver parade cane of the present type appears in Henry Potter & Co’s inter-war catalogues of bugles and drums, as ‘Suitable for either ‘Drum’ or Bugle Major’s’ parade use.
The drum and military accoutrement maker Henry Potter of Charing Cross was established by Samuel Potter (1772-1836) in 1810. Samuel, a drum-major in the Coldstream Guards, named his business for his new born son Henry and worked in the business at 20 King Street, Westminster, after leaving the Army on 1817. Henry (1810-1876) carried on his father’s business at 37 Marsham Street, and later a 2 Bridge Street, before moving to 30 Charing Cross in 1858. In 1868 Henry’s brother George established George Potter & Co., at Bank Street, Aldershot. In 1918 George Potter of Aldershot opened the well know shop at the intersection of Aldershot’s Queen’s Road and Grosvenor Road, aka Potter’s Corner.
