2007.33.30

Mahzell collapsing cane

Mah-Zell Precision Products

Three section tubular aluminum telescoping cane, each section straight, but each of smaller diameter from top to bottom; (.75"/.625"/.5"); straight handle with black rubber bicycle grip; joints lock with a knurled locking ring; threaded end holds screw-on steel glide tip with black rubber washer; silver label, "Mah-Zell aluminaid/Brooklyn 38, N.Y."

H-43 Dia-1.125 inches

pre 1963

Mah-Zell Precision Products

Brooklyn, NY

Aluminaid/Mah-zell was a sporting goods/metal fabricating company that had been in business at least as early as 1939 in Brooklyn, NY. The glide tip was introduced by the American Foundation for the Blind on its canes in 1948.

Gift of Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired