This whip has a bone hook shaped handle. There is a fine hairline crack at the back of the handle, but there is no movement or instability around it. It has a slver collar hallmarked Birmingham 1862. It also has the silversmith's stamp "HS". The collar is decorated in relief with a horseracing or hunting scene, showing three mounted riders and a fence. The long stock or shaft is made of red brown malacca cane with its distinctive ridged cross section. There are a few dark marks on the cane. It has its original rawhide open keeper and a long thong which ends in a knot around a yellow cord lash.
