A PARCEL-GILT AND ENAMEL SILVER CHARKA IN THE SHAPE OF A GUARD HORSE GRENADIER HELMET
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A PARCEL-GILT AND ENAMEL SILVER CHARKA IN THE SHAPE OF A GUARD HORSE GRENADIER HELMET

MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE MARK OF THE FIRST SILVER ARTEL, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 22737

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A PARCEL-GILT AND ENAMEL SILVER CHARKA IN THE SHAPE OF A GUARD HORSE GRENADIER HELMET
MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE MARK OF THE FIRST SILVER ARTEL, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 22737
Shaped as a Guard Horse Grenadier Helmet, the front applied with an Imperial double-headed eagle with a distinction band inscribed in Russian ‘For capturing the city of Vratsa / 28 October 1877’, with chin scales and enamelled cockade in the colours of St George’s order, the silver comb oxidised, (St Andrew star missing), marked on base and ribbon, also with import marks
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
8.97 oz. (278.9 gr.) gross

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For a similar model of a Guard Horse Grenadier Helmet, see A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, Juwelier des Zarenhofes: [eine Ausstellung des Museums fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg], Heidelberg, 1995, p. 193, no. 207.

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