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A COMMEMORATIVE SILVER PLAQUE
Lot 249 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BASIL ZAKHAROFF

A COMMEMORATIVE SILVER PLAQUE

MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDERS (ANTTI) NEVALAINEN, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908

Closed3 June 2019

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A COMMEMORATIVE SILVER PLAQUE
MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDERS (ANTTI) NEVALAINEN, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908
Rectangular, depicting a cruiser 'Rurik' and inscribed in Russian 'Cruiser of the 1st rank 'Rurik' / with 15,200 tonnes displacement and 19,700 power ind./ Construction started in Barrow, Furness (England) / at the Vickers Factory / 9 (22) August 1905', the reverse inscribed with names, marked on the reverse; in the original leather presentation Fabergé case, inscribed 'Mlle Zacharoff.' on cover
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) wide

Presented to Mlle Zakharoff (1849-1936).

Specialist note

Basil Zakharoff (1849-1936), a renowned businessman of the early twentieth-century, assisted the Russian Navy in the modernisation of their fleet prior to World War I. The battleship Rurik, built in July 1909 and named after the founder of the Rurik dynasty, was the result of Zakharoff’s network of connections in engineering. Built by the British firm Vickers, a firm that Zakharoff managed from 1897 to 1927, the Rurik proved to be one of the flagships of the Baltic Fleet during World War I.