A Victorian Scottish silver-gilt mounted Sheriff's tipstaff Mark of Marshall & Sons, Edinburgh, 1849 The plain hardwood baton with silver-gilt mounts at top, centre and base, the top formed as a royal crown on ermine cushion and with an inscription between foliate borders, the centre mount engraved with an inscription between borders of thistles, the base chased with an elaborate border of thistles on a matted ground above a foliate scroll lower border, the base engraved with a foliate monogram, in a lined and fitted wooden case, marked on central and lower mounts 15¾in. (40cm.) long The inscriptions read, 'Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Occupied Holyrood Palace Thursday 29th August 1850.' and 'John Thomson Gordon Sheriff of Mid-Lothian 1848.'
A Victorian Scottish silver-gilt mounted Sheriff's tipstaff Mark of Marshall & Sons, Edinburgh, 1849 The plain hardwood baton with silver-gilt mounts at top, centre and base, the top formed as a royal crown on ermine cushion and with an inscription between foliate borders, the centre mount engraved with an inscription between borders of thistles, the base chased with an elaborate border of thistles on a matted ground above a foliate scroll lower border, the base engraved with a foliate monogram, in a lined and fitted wooden case, marked on central and lower mounts 15¾in. (40cm.) long The inscriptions read, 'Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Occupied Holyrood Palace Thursday 29th August 1850.' and 'John Thomson Gordon Sheriff of Mid-Lothian 1848.'
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