A. Conan Doyle 
The Hound of the Baskervilles By A. Conan Doyle [EPUB ebook] 

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a ‚Penang lawyer.‘ Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. ‚To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H., ‚ was engraved upon it, with the date ‚1884.‘ It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.