Here now, no hidden weapon. The main length of the stick is as thin as my little finger and even thinner towards the end. Interesting that the middle piece of silver has come from presumably an item of British silverware either a recycled piece or from purchased scrap. Initially I thought It was a repair. However now I believe the whole thing is assembled from separate pieces . The stick just does not feel as if it was damaged or broken in the past. The middle section holds the weave wire in place (two sections) so there is no twist and play. This also helps to keep the twist at the end. The recycled silver would mean tribal work rather than court work. A colonial officer would be unlikely to carry a native swagger stick. It could possibly have been made for a British officer that stayed behind the line in command of tribal forces {z force}. Who knows? Even more romantically perhaps collected after the fall of Mandalay
