A. Nicholas’s baton

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

Name: A. Nicholas’s baton; Persons linked to the exhibit: A. Nicholas; Date: 1896; Country: Great Britain; Town: Birmingham; Materials: plastic, silver, wood; Measurements: length 51,3 cm, diameter 1,7 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 160; Description:

conical baton made of yellow plastic; at 1/3 of the length, a plain silver ring with an inscription; grip above the ring decorated with a spiral coil; plain grip below the ring; tip unfitted, with wood visible under a damaged layer of plastic; hallmarked in Birmingham in 1896; silversmith’s mark A.D.LD

; Inscriptions:

MR. A. NICHOLAS / From / BURLINGTON HALL / SINGING CLASS / September . 1896.

; Catalog card:

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

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