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Lot 433
Eighteen Caucasian Dress CartridgesLate 19th/Early 20th Century
1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £540 inc. premium
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Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Each with rounded light wood body, the steel tops each damascened with gold foliage and retaining traces of original blueing (18)
9.2 cm.
9.2 cm.
Footnotes
Offered with a copy of a handwritten note by George Lee, attaché to Anthony Eden, confirming that the cartridges were given to a Captain Brook-Store by an un-named aide-de-camp of the last Tsar of Russia and that they formed part of the Tsar's uniform worn on ceremonial parades




