Truncheon
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Lignum vitae
Measurements
380 mm (Height); 36 mm (Diameter)
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549344
Summary
Lignum vitae truncheon, tapering cylindrical with rounded end, handle with four broad grooves, disc end with leather loop. Impressed at top end ' (crown) CP'. Inscribed - Police truncheon lignum vitae CP city police AEQ 4632 £1.50 5482 F Squires (label)
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
Police truncheon lignum vitae CP city police AEQ 4632 £1.50 5482 F Squires (label)