A RUSSIAN GOLD CIGARETTE CASE

MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'AB', ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917

Details

A RUSSIAN GOLD CIGARETTE CASE
MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'AB', ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917
Rectangular and of oval section, the interior of the hinged polished gold cover inscribed in cyrillic 'To dear Nicholas Ivanovitch in good rememberance from grateful E. Katherina Michaelovna', with a sapphire-set thumb-piece, marked inside cover and base
3¾ in. (9.6 cm.) wide
gross weight 3 oz. (100 gr.)

Provenance

Given by Sir Henry Channon, M.P. (1897-1958) to Walter Lees.

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Lot Essay

Sir Henry "Chips" Channon (1897-1958) was an American born British Conservative politician and author. Best remembered for his diaries that tell of his life as a politician and the colourful social world of London's high society, he once described himself thus:
"I have flair, intuition, great good taste but only second rate ambition...I hate and am uninterested in all the things most men like such as sport, business,...war and the weather; but I am rivetted by lust, furniture, glamour, society and jewels". (Chips, ed. James, 38.)

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