Promotional Cotton Club mallet owned by Cab Calloway

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A promotional Cotton Club noisemaker mallet owned by Cab Calloway. The mallet has a red, barrel shaped head. The head has two carved line at each end. The handle is long, thin and natural wood colored. It has black text stamped at the center that reads [COTTON CLUB / B'WAY at 48th STREET Circle 7-1000 / BILL ROBINSON & CAB CALLOWAY / AND AN ALL STAR SEPIAN REVUE]. The text is bookended with a bands with a red square pattern.

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