Croquet mallet
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
945 x 180 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638722.3
Summary
A mallet with an octagonally facetted shaft tapering into a circular section; at the junction with the cylindrical head a drab painted hoop
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Marks and inscriptions
Around the shaft termination on the underside of the head and carved at the top of the handle : impressed around the shaft termination on the underside of the head ‘BUCHANAN/ 215 PICCADILLY’ and carved at the top of the handle, ‘ELL’