A GROUP OF SIXTEEN VARIOUS RUSSIAN SILVER SPOONS
VARIOUS DATES AND MAKERS, 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Comprising a Provincial parcel-gilt example by A.Sobinin, Tula, circa 1830, with spiral-twist stem and knop finial. stiff leaf engraving to back of bowl, two parcel-gilt and engraved pairs, one pair by the 9th Artel, Moscow, 1908/17, the other pair with Cyrillic inscription around bowl translating ad Without bread, without salt, it's half a meal, Moscow, 1889, four others with variously engraved bowls, five with leafy branch stems, 1908/17, another with two bears on the terminal and bark finish to stem, 1908/17, and a niello condiment spoon with architectural view to bowl
22 oz. (682 gm.) (16)
A GROUP OF SIXTEEN VARIOUS RUSSIAN SILVER SPOONS
VARIOUS DATES AND MAKERS, 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Comprising a Provincial parcel-gilt example by A.Sobinin, Tula, circa 1830, with spiral-twist stem and knop finial. stiff leaf engraving to back of bowl, two parcel-gilt and engraved pairs, one pair by the 9th Artel, Moscow, 1908/17, the other pair with Cyrillic inscription around bowl translating ad Without bread, without salt, it's half a meal, Moscow, 1889, four others with variously engraved bowls, five with leafy branch stems, 1908/17, another with two bears on the terminal and bark finish to stem, 1908/17, and a niello condiment spoon with architectural view to bowl
22 oz. (682 gm.) (16)
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