The Howard familys chevrons are from antique original cane they came across in Murano italy. Apparently the building was being vacated and was a glass factory and had alot of unfinished venetian cane so the Howard family bought all of it and they cut and shape and hand polish all of them. These are essentially the real deal he explained too that some of the canes are much older than 100 years. Definately worth buying while there still reasonable I dont see these babies staying cheap for long