The staff is made of ebony and tipped with two inch-deep silver ferrules.
The paintbrush filaments are firmly set in epoxy resin to ensure minimal loss, and the ferrule is made of stainless steel, so it will not rust or discolour.
Hold the brush in a similar way to a pencil, with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger.
Some of the fishing rods seem to have plated steel ferrules which rust.
It had particular cobbling of damaged ferrules on it which were as distinctive as a fingerprint.
In addition to these heavy iron ferrules they are sometimes loaded.
He said that they had iron ferrules, and that he had seen them.
