A gold and silver mounted red leather cardcase

MARKED WITH THE INITIALS OF SAMUEL ARNDT, ENGRAVED NICHOLLS AND PLINCKE, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1870

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A gold and silver mounted red leather cardcase
marked with the initials of Samuel Arndt, engraved Nicholls and Plincke, St. Petersburg, circa 1870
Rectangular with rounded corners and oval section, the red leather cover applied with four silver initials M around a gold crown, the mount engraved '4/16 October 1872', marked on inner mount, in original fitted case, the inside cover stamped Nicholls & Plincke à St. Petersbourg with Imperial warrant
4in. (10cm.) long

拍品專文

The initials are those of Maria Maximilianovna, Princess Romanovskii, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, born 4/16 October 1841, grand-daughter of Nicholas I through his daughter Maria, and Eugène de Beauharnais, who married Wilhelm Prince of Baden in 1863. She died in Karlsruhe in 1914.