Lot 397
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A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED PAPIER-MACHÉ PHOTOGRAPH FRAME
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A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED PAPIER-MACHÉ PHOTOGRAPH FRAME

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDERS NEVALAINEN, ST. PETERSBURG, 1896-1908, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 10596, THE PAPIER-MACHÉ PERHAPS BY NIKOLAI LUKUTIN FACTORY

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A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED PAPIER-MACHÉ PHOTOGRAPH FRAME
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDERS NEVALAINEN, ST. PETERSBURG, 1896-1908, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 10596, THE PAPIER-MACHÉ PERHAPS BY NIKOLAI LUKUTIN FACTORY
The oblong blue papier-maché frame with a ribbon-tied reeded silver-gilt bezel, suspended by a ribbon-tied husk swag, with a silver-gilt mounted back and a scroll strut, marked on bezel, on back and on strut
3¼ x 4 in. (8.5 x 10.1 cm.)
Containing a photocopy of a photograph of King George I of the Hellenes.
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Lot Essay

Another blue papier maché frame, containing a photograph of Tsar Alexander II with his son, the future Alexander III, which records suggest was among items confiscated in the Fabergé premises in Moscow on 30 April 1919 by the State authorities, was sold Christie's New York, 20 October 1999, lot 93.

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