Thanks for the thoughtful response and the link. It's good to know that there are other people use their canes this way. (Apologies for the delayed response, by the way.)

It's sort of the midpoint between an ID cane and a long cane. "Guide cane" might be the UK English term for it, I'm not sure. That's where most of the resources I found were based.

It's just a medium length cane that I use to judge depth on curbs and stairs and to help me on uneven pavement. (I also use it for identification purposes, it's just not limited to that.)

Yeah, it's a mess right now. Hope you get a response soon.