Description (Labels & Markings)
Label affixed to object reads: '1903.3 Constable's truncheon. Cambridge'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
Small copper wire previously looped through the hole in the handle indicates that this objects was displayed in the past (dates unknown). The wire has now been removed.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Auction / Sale)
Accession Register notes that the uninscribed truncheon was bought in Cambridge, but gives no specifics.
Event Date 1903
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Auction / Sale)
Handwritten note added to the Accession Register gives the purchase price as '6-6'.
Event Date 1903
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Annual Report: 'A truncheon painted with the Royal Arms and those of the town of Cambridge.'
Event Date 1903
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Lucie Carreau