The celebrated Claude Debussy's flamboyant ivory conductor's baton, marks indicating where the silver mounts once were set. This baton is exceptionally large at 58 cm long. Provenance: While studying music in Paris in his youth, Richard befriended his musical director, who was once a great friend of Claude Debussy. Upon Richard's departure from Paris, his professor gifted to Richard Debussy's conductors baton, just as Debussy himself had once passed it on