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Lot 237

A jewelled two-colour gold-mounted guilloché enamel hat-pin

RUSSIA, CIRCA 1900

Closed9 June 2009

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GBP 1,187

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A jewelled two-colour gold-mounted guilloché enamel hat-pin
Russia, circa 1900
Ovoid, enamelled in pale pink with a cabochon moonstone finial, apparently unmarked, in later fitted case stamped 'Noble & Co. London'
9 in. (23 cm.) long

Specialist note

Arthur Bowe, managed Fabergé's Moscow branch, with his brothers, Alan and Charles, until he left to establish the London branch in 1903. In 1906 the Bowe brothers left Fabergé and from 1908, Arthur Bowe ran Noble & Co, London.
(G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Imperial Craftsman and his world, London, 2000, p. 324.)