Name: Baton presented on the anniversary of the Semmeringbahn mountain railway; Date: 1929; Country: Austria; Town: Reichenau; Materials: ebony, silver; Measurements: length 37,2 cm, diameter 3,1 cm; Ownership: Jan Stanisław Witkiewicz’s collection; Inventory number: JSW 147; Description:

black ebony baton with fanciful silver fittings; at one end of the body, a large cone-shaped fitting with concave sides, finished with a little ball with a tip, and accompanied with an engraved inscription on the side; at the other end of the body, a much smaller fitting of the same shape, finished with a stylized lyre. As per silversmith’s marks, the baton was manufactured in Germany, silver fineness 800. The baton was presented as a gift commemorating the 75^th anniversary of the Semmeringbahn mountain railway, celebrated in 1929. The Semmering railway was the first standard-gauge mountain railway in Europe, opened in 1854. Reichenau is the name of a health spa resort en route of the Semmering railway.

; Inscriptions:

Kurkommission Reichenau / Semmeringbahn Jubiläum / 1929

; Catalog card: Joanna Gul, consultation: Magdalena Szmida-Półbratek (City Museum of Wrocław);

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