Baton with a metal grip

photo: Waldemar Kielichowski © Institute of Music and Dance, Warsaw

Name: Baton with a metal grip; Date: 1928; Country: Great Britain; Town: Birmingham; Materials: wood, metal, silver; Measurements: length 53,5 cm, diameter 3,3 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 89; Description:

Black baton with a metal grip fitting; conical body made of black-lacquered dark wood; sharply pointed wooden tip; metal grip fitting, finished with a flattened knob, engraved with floral ornaments; at 1./3 of the body, a silver ring with an impressed floral motif and room for inscription; ring split apart, attached with little nails, possibly unauthentic. Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1928, silversmith’s mark (?) C.LTD

; Inscriptions:

none

; Catalog card:

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

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