So far as I know my school (all girls) had just the one cane – “THE cane” as it was referred to! Over the years I guess it had to be replaced but I was caned twice (with a couple of years in between) and both times the cane looked much the same.
The Deputy Headmistress had a way of leaving it as the only item on her desk when punishment was due so that you couldn’t help but see it as you walked into her study – and then it lay there throughout the inevitable lecture.
As I recall it was not particularly heavy – slim and swishy I’d describe it as – a sort of yellowy/brown color with a crook handle. The youngest girls in our school were thirteen so I guess the decision had been made that one cane would be suitable for all.
We were caned on our knickered bottoms and it stung like crazy. I remember to this day the sinking feeling in my stomach as I waited, bent over the chair, and heard the cane rattle as it was picked up