Today's flea market find: A collapsable metal baton. I picked this up from a retired arson investigator who said he took it from a Russian mafia type some years back Measures about 12" extended, 5" collapsed. Handle appears to be aluminum, extensions are steel. This is an interesting addition to my collection as I have S&W marked wood billie, flat leather sap, and of course, various cuffs.
Can anyone tell me the vintage on this? I did find what appears to be an identical baton on ebay listed as new with 17 available... old stock?