Name: Edward Clapp’s baton;
Persons linked to the exhibit:
Edward Clapp;
Date:
1889;
Country: United States;
Town: Pittsfield (Massachusetts);
Materials: brown wood, silvered metal;
Measurements: length 40,3 cm, diameter 1,9 cm;
Ownership:
Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection;
Inventory number: JSW 133;
Description:
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Body made of dark wood, decorated with carved stripes and augmentations near the fittings; wooden tips clasped with wide, metal fittings adorned with plain linear ornaments; at 2/5 of the length, a metal ring was added, decorated analogically, with an inscription; the shape of the baton resembles a 19th-century flute. As per inscription, the baton was a gift from J.S. Walsh to Edward Clapp, the conductor of Germania Band in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1889.
; Inscriptions:on the ring: Presented to / Edward Clapp / Band Master Germania Band / by J. C. Walsh / Pittsfield Mass. Apr. 17th 1889.
; Catalog card:Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)
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