Name: Alex Gray’s baton; Persons linked to the exhibit: Alex Gray; Date: 1912; Country: Great Britain (Scotland); Town: Banknock; Materials: black lacquered wood, silver; Measurements: length 44,7 cm, diameter 1,9 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 104 ; Description:

Black baton with silver fittings; conical body made of black, lacquered wood; octagonal grip fitting, widening towards the end and finished with a small knob, impressed with a floral pattern on the side; in the middle of the body, an octagonal ring decorated with an identical floral motif, along with an inscription frame; tip fitting plain, unadorned; hallmarked in London in 1912, silversmith’s mark E·N (Ebenezer Newman & Co.). Similar exhibits can be found in the same collection under inventory numbers JSW 168, 35, 93

; Inscriptions:

PRESENTED TO MR. ALEX GRAY / BY HIS PUPILS IN THE / Banknock Colliery Brass Band

; Catalog card:

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

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