Given by the widow of Dr. English, the household physician of the emperor of China for 25 years. Emperor Guangxu (Zaitian) (Chinese emperor during the Boxer Rebellion) gave the cane to Dr. English. We do not know much about Dr. English other than that sometime after the emperor’s death in 1908, English returned to the US and died in Denver. Dr. English’s widow gifted the cane to either the French Consular Agent in Denver, Jean Baptiste Mignolet or his nephew, the donor, Jean Jacques Mignolet. Jean Jacques Mignolet had been the Maître D at the old ‘Denver Club.’ He retired with a mutual fund company, Financial Programs, Inc. There is no information in the record which of the two –if not both—collected the canes. Nor under which circumstances any of the canes were obtained from their original owners. Altogether, the collection consists of sixty-seven canes. Many came from around the world, but the majority belonged to or were collected from pioneer Denver men and well-known people like Claude Boettcher, Helen Bonfils, John Gates, George Kramer, and Francis Richie (the uncle of Mrs. Temple Buell). There is a cane made at the Colorado territorial prison. One contains a concealed 9mm pistol; another a concealed umbrella. There is a gambler’s cane with dice; a bamboo cane with a collapsible fishing pole inside. Another jeweled cane has a full length pool cue folded inside. One is contructed from the vertebrae of a shark. Every one of the sixty-seven is unique.