Name: D.R. Conway’s baton; Persons linked to the exhibit: D.R. Conway; Date: 1912; Country: Great Britain (Wales); Town: Connah’s Quay & Shotton; Materials: light wood (oiled or waxed), silvered metal; Measurements: length 45 cm, diameter 1,6 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 168; Description:

Black baton with silver fittings; conical wooden body; octagonal grip fitting, widening towards the end and finished with a small knob, decorated on the side with an impressed floral motif; in the middle of he body, an octagonal ring decorated with the same impressed floral motif and an inscription frame; plain, unadorned tip fitting; hallmarked in London in 1912; silversmith’s mark E·N (Ebenezer Newman & Co.). Similar exhibits can be found in the same collection under inventory numbers JSW 104, 35, 93

; Inscriptions:

PRESENTED TO MR. D. R. CONWAY, / BY THE / CONNAH’S QUAY & SHOTTON / MALE VOICE CHOIR  JAN. 8. 1913

; Catalog card:

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

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