Croquet mallet
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
925 x 245 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638722.4
Summary
A mallet with an octagonally facetted shaft tapering into a circular section which swells into a baluster where it joins the flat-bottomed cylindrical head, the octagonal section of the handle hatched. The whole affected by woodworm; the shaft broken at about three quarters length.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.