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Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick
 The
Blackthorn bush is found throughout Ireland and the British Isles. It has
been prized for centuries as a material for premium walking sticks. The
original Blackthorn sticks were 2 to 4 foot long Irish shillelaghs (the
national weapon of rural Ireland). In expert hands the shillelagh was so
fearsome that during the final occupation of Ireland, the English outlawed
it. To get around the law, the Irish turned the shillelagh into a 3-foot
walking stick. The English didn’t want to appear unreasonable by outlawing
walking sticks too, so the Irish kept their modified shillelaghs and the
world gained a beautiful and functional walking stick known simply as the
Blackthorn.
This Irish Blackthorn Walking Stick is artfully modified to a point where
it not only mimics nature, but actually rivals and supersedes anything the
natural world could produce! If nature had fashioned the most perfect
Blackthorn stick, and you were lucky enough to come by it, our Irish
Blackthorn Walking Stick is what it would look like. It’s a superb faux
Blackthorn stick, and since it’s injection molded from polypropylene, it
will never warp, crack, swell up, or splinter and is easy to maintain with
a little soap and water.
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