Name: D.R. Conway’s baton;
Persons linked to the exhibit:
D.R. Conway;
Date:
1912;
Country: Great Britain (Wales);
Town: Connah’s Quay & Shotton;
Materials: light wood (oiled or waxed), silvered metal;
Measurements: length 45 cm, diameter 1,6 cm;
Ownership:
Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection;
Inventory number: JSW 168;
Description:
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Black baton with silver fittings; conical wooden body; octagonal grip fitting, widening towards the end and finished with a small knob, decorated on the side with an impressed floral motif; in the middle of he body, an octagonal ring decorated with the same impressed floral motif and an inscription frame; plain, unadorned tip fitting; 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 104, 35, 93
; Inscriptions:PRESENTED TO MR. D. R. CONWAY, / BY THE / CONNAH’S QUAY & SHOTTON / MALE VOICE CHOIR JAN. 8. 1913
; Catalog card:Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)
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