Alexander II's carved ivory pen and two personalised leather desk wallets
Alexander II's carved ivory pen and two personalised leather desk wallets

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Alexander II's carved ivory pen and two personalised leather desk wallets
The ivory pen carved in imitation of a goose feather, with metal mount and nib, with the printed label 'Collection de S.A. la Princesse Yourievsky Appartenait a S.M. l'Empereur de Russie Alexandre II' and numbered '90', in wooden box, lid with Russian inscription stating that the pen was used by the Tsar to sign the constitution of 1 March 1881, and subsequently given to an unknown recipient by Princess Iur'evskaia on 1 March 1921 in Nice, 13in. (33cm.) long; together with a leather desk wallet with the entwined initials 'AA' on the upper cover and the printed label 'Belonged to Emperor Alexander II' and numbered in manuscript '57'; and another smaller with the crowned initials of Catherine Dolgorukaia [Princess Iur'evskaia] (3)
來源
Alexander II, bequeathed to his morganatic wife
Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna Iur'evskaia

拍品專文

The constitution of 1 March 1881, which the Emperor signed with the above pen on the morning of the day of his assassination, was annulled by Alexander III after his accession.