Truncheon with ribbed carved handle and painted black truncheon. [MJD 27/11/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Truncheon with ribbed carved handle and painted black truncheon. [MJD 27/11/2012]
Long description: Truncheon with ribbed carved handle and painted black truncheon. The truncheon is painted with a white circle with a red cross with small red cross in bottom right segment. [MJD 27/11/2012]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Birmingham London Wales Newport
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector William Coleman Piercy; PRM source William Coleman Piercy; PRM source Faith Piercy
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1839
Date collected: By 1935
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1935 Acquired: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width 38 mm, Length 462 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1939.3.205
Research and responses: Chartism was a 19th century British working-class movement for parliamentary reform. Chartist riots & demonstrations took place in Birmingham, London and in Newport, Wales, in 1839 [Encyclopædia Britannica Online]. [CF 14/3/2000]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartist: Chartism was a movement for social and political reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century. It gains its name from the People's Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement. ... [see site for further information] [AP 03/10/2006]

Search terms: Punishment and Torture, Weapon, Restraining Device, Punishment Device

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