Name: H. Murphy's baton; Persons linked to the exhibit: H. Murphy; Date: 1902; Country: Great Britain; Town: London; Materials: black-lacquered wood, silver; Measurements: length 51,7 cm, diameter 3,1 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 86; Description:

Baton made of black-lacquered wood with silver fittings; conical body; grip fitting with finely serrated sides, widening towards the end into a large knob, decorated with an impressed twig motif; polygon contour on the plain top of the knob; tip fitting rounded, decorated with the same twig motif; at 2/5 of the body, a silver ring with an impressed floral twig motif and an inscription in an oval frame; outside the frame, the ring narrows. Hallmarked in London in 1902 [sic!], silversmith’s mark E·N (Ebenezer Newman & Co.)

; Inscriptions:

PRESENTED TO / H. Murphy M.A. / by DUKE ST. CHURCH / JUNIOR CHOIR / MAY 1921

; Catalog card:

Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)

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