Baton Collection

A Dachshund choir has a dress rehearsal
Dress Rehearsal - A Dachshund choir is put through its paces... Date: 1911

Ladislaus I of Hungary or St. Ladislaus (Laszlo) (1040-1095). King of Hungary between 1077-1095. Portrait by Ignac Roskovics (1854-1916). Hungarian National Gallery. Budapest. Hungary

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Conductor. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Austrian soldiers in uniform, WW1
A selection of five Austro-Hungarian artillery soldiers and officers in uniform during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Zulu Warrior
An old Zulu warrior, (full length photograph) in native costume, holding a baton, spear and shield, Hluhluwe Game Reserve, Natal, South Africa. Date: 2004

Northern Ireland - three British soldiers in riot equipment
Official photograph of three British soldiers in riot equipment standing next to a one ton Humber. Two soldiers are armed with SLR Rifles, while the third is firing a baton round, Northern Ireland

Michiel de Ruyter as Lieutenant-Admiral, 1667, by Ferdinand
Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676). Dutch Admiral. Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter as Lieutenant-Admiral, 1667, by Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680). Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Map of Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the US Civil War when Ulyssess Grant and his army of the Tennessee drove the Confederate army of John C Pemberton back to Vicksburg and besieged the city

Animal Band Good Night
Poodle conductor, standing on a dais, raps the baton on the music stand while a donkey bass player, a goat trumpeter & a ? dog percussionist strike up a tune

Ferdinand I of Two Sicilies (1751-1825)
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (1751-1825). King of Sicily, Naples and Two Sicilies. Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Greek Relay Race
A relay race with a flaming torch instead of a mere baton

Tarot Card - Baton VIIII (IX)

Tarot Card - Roy de Baton (King of Clubs)

Ocean liner watch, Rolex Oyster Perpetual, Queen Mary
OCEAN LINER WATCH: Extremely rare Rolex 14 carat gold self-winding waterproof bubble back wristwatch with sweep centre seconds and Queen Mary dial

Count von Waldersee
Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Walderse (April 1832 ??March 1904) setting out for the front from Shanghai. He was a German field marshal who became Chief of the Imperial German General Staff

Mastaba of Nhnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. Royal srvant. Egypt
Mastaba of Nhnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. Royal servants at the palace of pharaoh Niuserre. Entrance with relief depicting the dead on both sides of the door. Detail. Saqqara. Egypt

Mastaba of Nhnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. Royal servants. Egypt
Mastaba of Nhnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. Royal servants at the palace of pharaoh Niuserre. Entrance with relief depicting the dead on both sides of the door. Saqqara. Egypt

Russian-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Canvas lambrequin and curtains, silk window screen, armchair. Planche 20. Croisee Russe. Lambrequin toile ou serge, ton creme, applications de laine

Tarot Card - Baton IIII (IV)

Tarot Card - Baton X

Tarot Card - Baton VIII

Tarot Card - Baton VII

Tarot Card - Baton VI

Tarot Card - Baton V

Tarot Card - Baton II

Tarot Card - Baton III

Cartoon, Sir Julius Benedict, composer and conductor
Cartoon, Sir Julius Benedict, German-born composer and conductor - Let us hope he will be spared for many years yet. 1885

The creole game or flying ring game, early 19thc century
Fashionable people playing the flying ring game or the creole game. When the Parisians adopted the game, it had to be embellished: so the ring was covered with ribbon, then rosettes, then bells

Street entertainer performing tricks with a baton
Street entertainer using a baton to remove a coin from a womans nose without touching her nose. Audience of fashionable women in bonnets, shawls and dresses with frills

Chief Herald of Arms, Napoleonic era. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France)

Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor
Pietro Mascagni, Italian opera composer and conductor. 1893

Cats playing musical instruments on a Christmas postcard -- Merry Musicians, The Nursery Series. Date: circa 1890s

Kittens singing on a French birthday postcard, with a kitten conductor and a basket of flowers. Date: circa 1890s

Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Opdam (Obdam)
Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Opdam (or Obdam, 1610-1665), Commander of the Dutch Navy. circa 1660

Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
Alexander Farnese (1545-1592), Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro, and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands. 16th century

Johann Strauss conducting an orchestra. circa 1898

SIR HENRY JOSEPH WOOD (1869 - 1944), English conductor and composer, associated with Promenade Concerts Date: 1907

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), German musician conducts. Date: 1877

Female cheerleaders, or baton twirlers
A group of female cheerleaders, or baton twirlers, practise outside the premises of Ely Garnett and Son in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. See also Mary Evans Picture number 12445364 Date: 1988

Parisian Officer directing traffic on Les Grand Boulevards
A French Traffic Gendarme with a VERY fine moustache and beard combo direct traffic at a junction on the Grand Boulevards, Paris at the Porte Saint-Denis. Date: circa 1920

House clearance auction in a garden, with items on tables, an auctioneer with a baton and a porter in an apron. Date: circa 1908

Tarot Card - Cavalier de Baton (Knight of Clubs)

Tarot Card - Reyne de Baton (Queen of Clubs)

Tarot Card - Valet de Baton (Page of Clubs)

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726). Portr
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726), also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel. Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a Kurf?rst of the Holy Roman Empire. Portrait

Maximilian I (1459-1519), Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian I (1459-1519). King of the Romans (also known as King of the Germans) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death. Colored engraving

Huascar Inca (h. 1491-1532). Sapa Inca of the Inca empire fr
Huascar Inca (h.1491-1532). Sapa Inca of the Inca empire from 1527 to 1532. Son of Huayna Capac. Colored engraving. 1726

Henry IV of Castile (1425-1474), the Impotent
Henry IV (1425-1474). King of the Crown of Castile (1454-1474), nicknamed the Impotent. He was the last of the weak late medieval kings of Castile. Colored engraving

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