25 Jul 2012
11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge
British and Continental Silver and Objects of Vertu
Back to auction 19949
British and Continental Silver and Objects of Vertu
Back to auction 19949
A yellow metal cigarette case
with pseudo Russian marks
In the Fabergé style, square form, with engine-turned ground and four applied vari-coloured leaf and berry bands encircling the case, cover and underside centred with a roundel, with hinged top cover and tube for tinder cord and side-hinged vesta compartment with inset steel striker, length 10.5cm, weight total 358gms.
In the Fabergé style, square form, with engine-turned ground and four applied vari-coloured leaf and berry bands encircling the case, cover and underside centred with a roundel, with hinged top cover and tube for tinder cord and side-hinged vesta compartment with inset steel striker, length 10.5cm, weight total 358gms.
Sold for
£6,250
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: Sotheby's Geneva, 13-15 May 1996, ex-lot 343, sold as having belonged to Lt General A Semeynov.
Category: Decorative Arts / Silver
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