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AN ENAMEL AND SILVER PRESENTATION PLAQUE
UNRECORDED CYRILLIC WORKMASTER'S INITIALS SB, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
Of rectangular form, the plaque depicting a young man in medieval dress holding a quill over a scroll with the engraved Russian inscription 'In fond memory to the dear superintendant Boris Mikhailovich Strakovskii for the joint work of the defense of our dear Motherland at the time of the great patriotic War from the workers of the transport department, Archangel, July 1917' and looking at a window set with an enamel plaque depicting a view of the Kremlin, with numerous engraved signatures within a chased leaf design rim
15¼in. (38.5cm.) high
UNRECORDED CYRILLIC WORKMASTER'S INITIALS SB, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
Of rectangular form, the plaque depicting a young man in medieval dress holding a quill over a scroll with the engraved Russian inscription 'In fond memory to the dear superintendant Boris Mikhailovich Strakovskii for the joint work of the defense of our dear Motherland at the time of the great patriotic War from the workers of the transport department, Archangel, July 1917' and looking at a window set with an enamel plaque depicting a view of the Kremlin, with numerous engraved signatures within a chased leaf design rim
15¼in. (38.5cm.) high
Literature
Margaret Kelly, Highlights from The FORBES Magazine Galleries, (New York, 1985), p. 51