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MARKED GRACHEV, MAKER'S MARK OF KARL ALBREKHT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1884
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A PARCEL-GILT FLATWARE SERVICE
MARKED GRACHEV, MAKER'S MARK OF KARL ALBREKHT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1884
Comprising twelve dinner knives, eleven snail forks, six spoons, a carving knife and a cheese knife, all chased to simulate basketweave, interiors of spoons gilt, marked on stems and blade of the carving knife; in the original fitted silk and velvet-lined wooden box stamped in Russian ‘Grachev’ and with the coat-of-arms of the Leslie family
8 ½ in. (21.7 cm.) long and smaller
52.96 oz. (1,647.1 gr.) gross
MARKED GRACHEV, MAKER'S MARK OF KARL ALBREKHT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1884
Comprising twelve dinner knives, eleven snail forks, six spoons, a carving knife and a cheese knife, all chased to simulate basketweave, interiors of spoons gilt, marked on stems and blade of the carving knife; in the original fitted silk and velvet-lined wooden box stamped in Russian ‘Grachev’ and with the coat-of-arms of the Leslie family
8 ½ in. (21.7 cm.) long and smaller
52.96 oz. (1,647.1 gr.) gross
Provenance
Count Alexandre Leslie de Vergenne-Lavalle (b. 1893).
By descent to his daughter, Olga de Leslie Leigh (d. 2012).
Acquired by present owner from the above.
By descent to his daughter, Olga de Leslie Leigh (d. 2012).
Acquired by present owner from the above.
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