A gold and enamel commemorative jeton
Samuel Arndt, St. Petersburg, before 1899
the octagonal front panel enriched with enamel shields surrounding cypher for Alexander II, the back inscribed in Cyrillic 'Moscow-Kursk railway line' against champlevé blue ground, dedicated to M. Kh. Reytern to commemorate the 1864 beginning and September 5, 1868 opening of the line
height: 6.5cm (2.5in).
the octagonal front panel enriched with enamel shields surrounding cypher for Alexander II, the back inscribed in Cyrillic 'Moscow-Kursk railway line' against champlevé blue ground, dedicated to M. Kh. Reytern to commemorate the 1864 beginning and September 5, 1868 opening of the line
height: 6.5cm (2.5in).
Sold for
£7,500
inc. premium
Footnotes
- M. Kh. Reytern served Russia as Minister of Finance.
For similar examples see A. N. Ivanov, Jetons of the Russian Empire, Russian National Museum, Moscow 2004, pp. 112-113.
Category: Fine Art / Russian Art
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