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For a similar frame, see Christie's Geneva, 12 May 1981, lot 116
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A PARCEL-GILT GUILLOCHE ENAMEL DOUBLE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME
by Fabergé, workmaster Karl Hjalmar Armfelt, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917, with scratched inventory number 20161
Of rectangular form with top rounded corners, the oval aperture on one side with reed-and-tie border within a white moiré guilloché enamel plaque, the reverse with a rectangular aperture with reed-and-tie border within a purple moiré guilloché enamel, with silver-gilt strut - 17 cm high
by Fabergé, workmaster Karl Hjalmar Armfelt, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917, with scratched inventory number 20161
Of rectangular form with top rounded corners, the oval aperture on one side with reed-and-tie border within a white moiré guilloché enamel plaque, the reverse with a rectangular aperture with reed-and-tie border within a purple moiré guilloché enamel, with silver-gilt strut - 17 cm high