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A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED AND NEPHRITE MINIATURE HAND SEAL
Lot 202

A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED AND NEPHRITE MINIATURE HAND SEAL

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, 1899-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 65573

Closed6 June 2016

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A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED AND NEPHRITE MINIATURE HAND SEAL
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, 1899-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 65573
The egg-shaped nephrite handle with a diamond-set star-shaped finial, the fluted tapering stem with green gold laurel band, the square agate matrix engraved with anchor, marked on stem
1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

The anchor engraved on the matrix of the present seal suggests that it could have belonged to Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1850-1908), the fourth son of Emperor Alexander II, and the General Admiral of the Russian naval forces between 1883-1905.

A comparable seal with a purpurine handle was sold Sotheby’s, Geneva, 14 May 1987, lot 372.