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A JEWELED GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER BANGLE
Lot 3

A JEWELED GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER BANGLE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF EDVARD HELENIUS, TOWN AND DATE MARK INDISTINCT, CIRCA 1908

Closed16 April 2012

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A JEWELED GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER BANGLE
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF EDVARD HELENIUS, TOWN AND DATE MARK INDISTINCT, CIRCA 1908
Oval, with rounded sides, each end set with a cabochon sapphire within a rose-cut diamond border, marked on ends
2 7/8 in. (7.1 cm.) wide

Mary A. McBain (1890-1976).
A Private Collection.

Specialist note

A nearly identical silver bangle, marked Fabergé and with the identical workmaster's mark, is illustrated in G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Hofjuwelier der Zaren (Munich, 1986), p. 139, no. 93. A comparable example is illustrated on p. 140, no. 103.
For an original watercolor design related to the present lot, see Sotheby's, Geneva, May 27, 1993, lot 370, number 210.