Cylindrical baton

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

Name: Cylindrical baton; Date: turn of the 19th and 20th century; Country: unknown; Town: unknown; Materials: black, French-polished wood, metal; Measurements: length 39,8 cm, diameter 1,7 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 76; Description:

Cylindrical baton; body made of black wood, decorated with augmentations near the fittings; wooden tips with broad metal fittings with an engraved floral ornament; wooden hemisphere at one of the tips; at 2/5 of the length, a metal ring with engraved floral motives and inscription frame; the shape of the baton resembles a 19th century flute. A similar baton can be found in the same collection under inventory number JSW 133

; Inscriptions:

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

; Catalog card:

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

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