Pub Quiz thread

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Last produced in the UK in 1856, this object could still be found in two British colonies for many years, and didn't disappear from one until 1955. What was it?
 
With no knowledge whatsoever, it sounds like some instrument of physical control , to keep the pesky natives in their place ?