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A GOLD AND ENAMEL RAILWAY JETON
Lot 208

A GOLD AND ENAMEL RAILWAY JETON

BY FABERGÉ, MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904

Closed1 June 2015

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A GOLD AND ENAMEL RAILWAY JETON
BY FABERGÉ, MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904
Of shield form, applied with the Persian lion-and-sun motif, inscribed in Russian 'Tehran / Enzeli' on varicoloured grounds, surmounted by an Imperial eagle and ribbon crest, the reverse inscribed in Russian 'Enzeli / Tehran / Railway / N.P. / Nikolskii', with suspension loop, in the original silk and velvet-lined wood case stamped 'K. Fabergé Moscow St Petersburg' beneath the Imperial warrant, marked on loop
1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm.)

Specialist note

Nikolay Nikolskii (1868-1942) was a Russian diplomat in Persia. He served in Tehran from 1898, then in Kermanshah from 1903 and was appointed a Consul General in Mashhad in 1914. Nikolskii emigrated to France in 1921 where he worked at the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, an organisation founded in 1922.

For a comparable jeton, see I. Gorianov, M. Muradian, Zheleznodorozhnie Zhetony iz Kollektsii Firmy 'Znak', Moscow, 2011, pp. 178-179.