Like the Imperial Commemorative Cigarette-Case in this collection, this smaller case bears the same engraving in the neo-Empire taste first seen on the Pelican Egg of 1897. Similar cases may be seen illustrated von Habsburg, Fabergé, 1987, p. 148, illus. 141; the same case is also illustrated Booth, The Art of Fabergé, 1990, p. 174. Another similar case was sold in these Rooms, April 19 1990, lot 236. A matchcase, possibly designed to accompany this cigarette-case was exhibited New York, A La Vieille Russie, April 22-May 21 1983, and is illustrated in the catalogue, fig. 135.