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A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL COIN BROOCH
Lot 208 PROPERTY OF A LADY 

A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL COIN BROOCH

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF AUGUST HOLLMING, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER POSSIBLY 51197

Closed2 June 2014

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A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL COIN BROOCH
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF AUGUST HOLLMING, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER POSSIBLY 51197
Circular, the centre set with a gold five rouble coin en plein enamelled with the portrait of Empress Catherine II in profile, dated 1781 on reverse, within a gold border, reeded exterior border set with six sapphires at intervals, marked on pin and pin loop
1½ in. (3.2 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

A similar brooch set with a rouble was sold Christie's, London, 13 June 2007, lot 175. Another similar brooch was included in the exhibition Fabergé and the Russian Jewellers in 2006. See exhibition catalogue, Fabergé and the Russian Jewellers, London, Wartski, 2006, pp. 82-[83], fig. 240.