z Sold ~ 1890 era Policeman's Billy Club Nightstick.

Billy Club. Description:  Golden brown hardwood billy club, handle turned to form grip area bands, original leather wrist band at top. The leather show some cracking but is not broken through and could still be used for display or worn with your old lawdawg outfit. 

Dimensions: 16 inches overall length. This is bigger than the bar tender's clubs we have found before.  It once belonged to an area policeman whose beat was on the waterfront of Prairie du Chien, Wisc.  In the old days this was known to be a very rough-and-tumble Mississippi river town.