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A JEWELLED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER CIGARETTE CASE
Lot 247 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARION OATES CHARLES

A JEWELLED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER CIGARETTE CASE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF AUGUST HOLLMING, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 7408

Closed3 June 2019

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A JEWELLED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER CIGARETTE CASE
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF AUGUST HOLLMING, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 7408
Rectangular, the body cast and chased with reeding simulating the flag of St Andrew, the hinged cover set with a gold-mounted white guilloché enamel lozenge, applied with a diamond-set crowned anchor with the initial 'A', with vesta compartment and gilt interior, the gold thumb-piece set with a cabochon sapphire, marked inside cover and base
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) wide

Specialist note

The crowned initial 'A' entwined with an anchor is the cypher of Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovich (1850-1908), the fourth son of Emperor Alexander II. Alexis was Admiral General and Supreme Chief of the Russian Imperial fleet.
A comparable gold cigarette case by Fabergé, applied with the cypher of Grand Duke Alexis, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Fabergé, a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, p. 74, no. 197. Another comparable cigarette case was sold Christie's, London, 8 June 2010, lot 112.