Name: David F. Young’s baton; Persons linked to the exhibit: David F. Young; Date: 1896; Country: Great Britain (Scotland); Town: Haggs; Materials: black-lacquered wood, silver; Measurements: length 51,2 cm, diameter 2,3 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 85; Description:

Conical body made of black-lacquered wood with silver fittings; elongated grip fitting widening into a knob, decorated with an impressed twig motif; on top of the knob, a contour of a polygon with concave sides (top of the knob dented); tip fitting slightly rounded; at half-point of the body, a silver ring with an engraved inscription; tip, ring, and grip decorated with the same impressed floral twig motif; hallmarked in London in 1896, silversmith’s mark: AJC

; Inscriptions:

PRESENTED TO / MR. DAVID F. YOUNG / BY THE MEMBERS OF THE / HAGGS PARISH CHURCH CHOIR / FEBY 19TH 1897

; Catalog card:

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

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