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A VERY RARE SILVER AND NIELLO CIGARETTE CASE
Lot 253

A VERY RARE SILVER AND NIELLO CIGARETTE CASE

MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1899-1908

Closed3 June 2019

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A VERY RARE SILVER AND NIELLO CIGARETTE CASE
MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1899-1908
Rectangular, the cover depicting a troika, with silver thumb-piece and match compartment with striker, decorated throughout with niello foliage on stippled ground, the reverse engraved with the Fenwick crest, with gilt interior, the inside cover engraved 'Keld Fenwick from Mother Aug 13. 1913 / Royal Horse Guards', marked inside cover, base and match compartment
3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Keld Fenwick gained the rank of Captain in the Royal Horse Guards. The case was probably gifted by Millicent Montagu (1864-1942) to her son, Keld George Robert Fenwick (1892-1934), on his twenty-first birthday.
For a nearly identical cigarette case, described as the only example of a niello work by Fabergé, see H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, London, 1949, plate 116.