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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2012, 10:07:50 am »
Is it worth anything?
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2012, 10:49:50 am »
It is, if that is gold, and as i said previously, it does,nt need a hallmark to be gold...it certainly has the colour of gold...you can do a test...by using a testing kit..save,s taking it to a jeweller who may charge

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GOLD-SILVER-TESTING-KIT-TESTER-SOLUTION-COLOUR-CHART-INSTRUCTIONS-/140861885763?pt=UK_Jewellery_Watches_JewelleryBoxes_Supplies_CA&hash=item20cc05cd43
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2012, 11:25:53 am »
Is it worth more than scrap value of the gold? Like is it something a collector would want?
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2012, 01:48:17 pm »
There are collectors for riding items such as bits and spurs for western riding,, I imagine there are as well for english riding !!
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2012, 03:27:09 pm »
My father attended a military academy while he lived in Texas.  He told me of one of his instructors who carried a "swagger stick"  Do you know if your great-grandfather was ever in the military?  Could there be a military insignia on it? I read that "standard" swagger sticks are around 22".
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #20 on: October 09, 2012, 03:30:58 pm »
if  a collector of whatever you have got...and the jury,s still out as to what it might be...if it was complete.a collector would probably be interested..but as it is..you,d have to advertise it as incomplete...which greatly reduces its value....
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2012, 03:34:37 pm »
Quote from: Kimmienemo on October 09, 2012, 03:27:09 pm
My father attended a military academy while he lived in Texas.  He told me of one of his instructors who carried a "swagger stick"  Do you know if your great-grandfather was ever in the military?  Could there be a military insignia on it? I read that "standard" swagger sticks are around 22".
you,ve missed the boat Kim..see.my first post..... ;)
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #22 on: October 09, 2012, 03:59:19 pm »
Oops! ::)  That will teach me to skim the posts!  Sorry!  I guess I lose the few coconuts I earned  :'(
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #23 on: October 09, 2012, 04:05:12 pm »
Quote from: Kimmienemo on October 09, 2012, 03:59:19 pm
Oops! ::)  That will teach me to skim the posts!  Sorry!  I guess I lose the few coconuts I earned  :'(
Coconuts are old hat...i,m on Guava,s now....
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #24 on: October 09, 2012, 04:36:31 pm »
Swagger sticks are usually made differently and not nearly as tapered at the end !! They are more cane like !!
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #25 on: October 09, 2012, 04:51:40 pm »
I doubt if we will ever really know what it is...simply because..if it were a riding crop..it would have a paddle on the end, if it was a whip..its too short...maybe its a magic wand for all we know....like this swagger/wand....


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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #26 on: October 09, 2012, 08:58:22 pm »
Was anyone a professor? Maybe it's a fancy pointer as to pointing at things on a blackboard. Just another idea. :-\
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #27 on: October 09, 2012, 11:59:57 pm »
Not a bad idea...it could be many things...but with possibly having a piece missing?..we just can,t say for definite,....what we have,nt asked...i don,t think is.....is it flexible...how much give, is there when its held at either end....then bent slightly...?
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #28 on: October 10, 2012, 02:29:48 am »
He was a headteacher....
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Re: Conductors Baton or Whip?
« Reply #29 on: October 10, 2012, 03:20:24 am »
we all missed that, as its in your first post...but i still think it would not have been made as a pointer...it has been something else prior to possibly being used as a pointer...could you take a pic of the end...to give an end on view....
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