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A Jewelled Gold and Guilloché Enamel Card Case
Lot 166 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF CATHERINE HALFF EDSON

A Jewelled Gold and Guilloché Enamel Card Case

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 8685

Closed13 April 2011

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A Jewelled Gold and Guilloché Enamel Card Case
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, 1899-1903, scratched inventory number 8685
Rectangular, enamelled in translucent purple over a wavy guilloché ground between opaque white borders, the gold mounts set with seed pearls, the front centering an oval cartouche enamelled in white over a sunburst guilloché ground within a seed-pearl border, with hinged upper section and diamond-set push-piece, marked on bezel and inside upper section
3 7/8 in. (9.5 cm.) long

Specialist note

For a similar card case by Perchin, see the Kazan Collection of Fabergé, sold Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 103, and M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, p. 107, No. 24, illustrated.