Stick Questions for our Native Scots

[Tobus]

To be honest I'm not sure I exactly what a market stick is. I'm familiar with cromachs but not this style.

I'm not a Scot, but from what I've read, market sticks are usually a little fancier. They're meant for looking good when a farmer/herdsman/whoever goes to market, instead of being purely functional like the ones he'd use out in the hills.

That said, a lot of the market sticks I have seen are very similar to cromachs, but they tend not to have the curled nose. This seems so common that I think a lot of folks use the term "market stick" to refer to that shape.