Croquet mallet
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
970 x 185 mm
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638722.2.3
Summary
One of three mallets with octagonally facetted handles tapering into a circular section shaft which swells above the joint with the cylindrical head. This balustered part of the shaft is coloured white, with two blue hoops and a maroon one at the top of the baluster
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Marks and inscriptions
On the head around the joint with the shaft: impressed on the head around the joint with the shaft, ‘BUCHANAN/ 215 PICCADILLY’