Name: David F. Young’s baton;
Persons linked to the exhibit:
David F. Young;
Date:
1896;
Country: Great Britain (Scotland);
Town: Haggs;
Materials: black-lacquered wood, silver;
Measurements: length 51,2 cm, diameter 2,3 cm;
Ownership:
Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection;
Inventory number: JSW 85;
Description:
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Conical body made of black-lacquered wood with silver fittings; elongated grip fitting widening into a knob, decorated with an impressed twig motif; on top of the knob, a contour of a polygon with concave sides (top of the knob dented); tip fitting slightly rounded; at half-point of the body, a silver ring with an engraved inscription; tip, ring, and grip decorated with the same impressed floral twig motif; hallmarked in London in 1896, silversmith’s mark: AJC
; Inscriptions:PRESENTED TO / MR. DAVID F. YOUNG / BY THE MEMBERS OF THE / HAGGS PARISH CHURCH CHOIR / FEBY 19TH 1897
; Catalog card:oanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław)
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