Baton with a monogram JF

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

Name: Baton with a monogram JF; Date: 20th century; Country: unknown; Town: unknown; Materials: wood, silvered metal; Measurements: length 40,2 cm, diameter 1,5 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 22; Description:

Body made of black wood, narrowing from the halfway point towards the tip; fitting at the end of the wide grip decorated with a frieze with a braiding motif, finished with a long, metal “acorn”; tip fitting decorated with a frieze of stars, finished with an elongated metal “acorn”; at 1/3 of the length, a wide metal ring with an engraved monogram, decorated with a braiding motif. A similar baton can be found in the same collection under inventory number JSW 26

; Inscriptions:

monogram JF

; Catalog card:

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

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