Here we offer a unique item which we have NOT come across before!!!! Any feedback from our friends out there would be much appreciated.

At first glance one would take this 'Baton' ?.........'Swagger Stick' ? as having been made somewhere in the Middle East.........or even further East of Suez!!!!!
Yet the three aspects of Silver in the Design are each clearly Hallmarked for LONDON 1907..........This is as one would expect from any good English Silversmith who would put marks to EVERY part of his production......(Such as a lid or even a hinged extension). 
We are still researching the Maker who was an H. S. contained within 'looped' circles..........As we dig him out.......more information will follow.
"Quartermaster's Comment":-  We have here what must only be a RARE item of quality of the Edwardian Era.
It is interesting in that there are NO initials to the fore. Could this be that it was made for the use of a Bandmaster in say an Indian Regiment????
As it measures only some 47 Centimetres in length it is much shorter than the average 'Picquet Cane' or 'Swagger Stick' which are normally some 60 to 70 cms overall.
All round a most interesting offering!!!!!!