Baton of Birmingham

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

Name: Baton of Birmingham; Date: 1895; Country: Great Britain; Town: Birmingham; Materials: dark, French-polished wood, silver; Measurements: length 43,7 cm, diameter 2,1 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 106; Description:

Black baton with a silver grip fitting; conical body made of dark, French-polished wood; grip fitting rounded, with an impressed acanthus leaves motif; rounded wooden tip. Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1895, silversmith’s mark J.H

; Inscriptions:

none

; Catalog card:

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

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