A case for a marshal's baton, Second Empire Dark brown shagreen leather with thirty gold-stamped eagles on lightning bolts. Brass hinge and closure hook. Light silk liner indented by the bracelet of the baton. Signs of age and use. Exterior length 53 cm, interior length cm, exterior diameter 7 cm, interior about cm. From the 18th century on, French marshal's batons were made nearly identically of gold and blue velvet, the length of each was 20 inches ( cm) with a diameter of inches (circa cm). The golden appliqués were fleur-de-lys, imperia,

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