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VARIOUS MAKERS AND DATES, MOSCOW, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF FIVE SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASES
VARIOUS MAKERS AND DATES, MOSCOW, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
All decorated with varicolour floral motifs on gilt stippled ground, one, inscribed in Russian 'Zefir', mark of Maria Semenova, Moscow, 1908-1917, also with later Soviet marks; another, depicting a bird within foliage, mark of Nikolay Zverev, Moscow, 1908-1917; another, with tinder cord, mark of Ivan Saltykov, Moscow, circa 1890; another, with a cabochon glass push-piece, mark of Mikhail Zorin, Moscow, 1908-1917; another, maker's mark Cyrillic 'MCh', Moscow, 1908-1917
5 in. (12.7 cm.) wide and smaller
VARIOUS MAKERS AND DATES, MOSCOW, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
All decorated with varicolour floral motifs on gilt stippled ground, one, inscribed in Russian 'Zefir', mark of Maria Semenova, Moscow, 1908-1917, also with later Soviet marks; another, depicting a bird within foliage, mark of Nikolay Zverev, Moscow, 1908-1917; another, with tinder cord, mark of Ivan Saltykov, Moscow, circa 1890; another, with a cabochon glass push-piece, mark of Mikhail Zorin, Moscow, 1908-1917; another, maker's mark Cyrillic 'MCh', Moscow, 1908-1917
5 in. (12.7 cm.) wide and smaller
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