Black baton with fittings and bird motives; conical body made of dark, lacquered wood, with a silver fitting at the end of the grip, slightly widened, in the shape of a cone, decorated on the sides and flat top with engravings of birds in rushes (herons and small birds); at 1/3 of the body, a silver ring was fixed with an engraved inscription and an analogical bird motif; wooden tip, damaged, without fitting; hallmarked in London in 1885, silversmith’s mark: J.H.R.; as per inscription, the baton was presented in 1896 to Alfred Steel by the choir and friends of the [musical] society in Rothwell (the abbreviation P.M. possibly stands for the Primitive Methodist Church, one of the Methodist churches).
; Inscriptions:Presented to / Mr. Alfred Steel / by the Choir & / Friends of the / P. M. / SOCIETY / ROTHWELL. / 14.Augt. 1886
; Catalog card:Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)
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