1.75 x 10 x 3.25. Commemorative and association items. Wooden gavel with engraved silver band around the head of the gavel. Engraving reads Joseph I. Waring MD President Medical Society of S.C. 1948 I. Ripon Wilson MD Retiring. Awarded to Dr. Joseph I. Waring (1897-1977) when he was president of the Medical Society of South Carolina in 1948.