Name: Baton of Chester, Great Britain;
Date:
1895;
Country: Great Britain;
Town: Chester;
Materials: wood, brass, silver;
Measurements: length 52,3 cm, diameter 2,2 cm;
Ownership:
Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection;
Inventory number: JSW 102;
Description:
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Conical body made of light wood, painted black; brass grip fitting, widening, with a plain, rounded top, unadorned; at 2/5 of the length, a narrow silver ring with acanthus leaves and an inscription (?) contour; below, on the body, a mark after a ring of a different width (current ring unauthentic?); hallmarked in Chester in 1895, silversmith’s mark J.H.R. in an oval field
; Inscriptions:barely decipherable marks: Jessu [?] / ...
; Catalog card:Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)
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