"It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a 'Penang lawyer.' -The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."
Dr. James Mortimer owned a Penang lawyer with a "head;" therefore it is likely he owned one with a knob head like the one pictured above.
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