A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL STAMP BOX
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED MIDWEST PRIVATE COLLECTION
A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL STAMP BOX

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HJALMAR ARMFELT, ST. PETERSBURG, 1904-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 16140

細節
A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL STAMP BOX
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HJALMAR ARMFELT, ST. PETERSBURG, 1904-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 16140
Rectangular on four bun feet, the tapering body enameled in translucent lilac over a wavy guilloché ground, each side applied with a rosette flanked by blossoming flowers and anthemions, rising to a hinged cover with rectangular aperture within leaf-tip borders, enclosing a group of Russian stamps beneath a glass panel, opening to reveal three sloping stamp compartments, marked under base and inside cover
4 in. (10.1 cm.) wide
來源
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Geneva, November 13, 1986, lot 486.
Wartski, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1991.