This whip has an antler or staghorn handle carved as a hound's head.
The hound has glass eyes
There is a whistle in the handle, this works well.
It has a silver coloured (probably nickel) collar with foliate decoration and a blank oval cartouche for engraving.
The short shaft or stock is made of golden brown malacca cane with its characteristic teardrop shaped cross-section The whip has a its original small open rawhide keeper at its end and a braided leather thong with a bound loop at its end.
