Name: Heinrich Veit’s baton; Persons linked to the exhibit: Heinrich Veit; Date: 1927; Country: Czech Republic; Town: Brno; Materials: light wood, French-polished with black shellac, bone, metal; Measurements: length 40,2 cm, diameter 1,9 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 114; Description:

Conical baton with bone tips; body made of light, black-painted wood; bone tips rounded, tip finished with a small, flattened ball; at 1/3 of the body, a metal plate in the shape of a shield with an engraved inscription on one side, and a metal lyre with an engraved date on the other side. As per inscription, the baton belonged to the choirmaster Heinrich Veit, and was a gift from the German song ensemble Typographen Sängerbund of Brno in June 1927.

; Inscriptions:

DER / BRÜNNER / TYPOGRAPHEN / SÄNGERBUND / SEINEM / CHORMEISTER / HEINRICH / VEIT ; on the lyre: 4.-6.VI. / 1927

; Catalog card:

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

; Bibliography:

Brno: Typographen-Sängerbund (Pěvecký spolek typografů): http://spolky.profitux.cz/b/bm/tsb1873.html

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