A SILVER GOLD AND ENAMEL RAILWAY JETON

POSSIBLY BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880

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A SILVER GOLD AND ENAMEL RAILWAY JETON
POSSIBLY BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880
Circular, one side applied with enamelled coat-of-arms of Perm and Solikamsk, rail tools and crown, all within a gold reeded border, inscribed in Russian 'A.E. Baron Huene' on blue enamel, the reverse inscribed in Russian 'Gornozavodsk Ural R.[ail]W.[ay] / 1874 / 1878', with two pickaxes on the sides, surmounted by a helmet shaped finial terminating in suspension loop, with two later loops on the lower border, apparently unmarked

2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) high, with suspension loop

來源

Alexander Emanuel von Hoyningen-Huene (1824-1911).
By descent in the family to the previous owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Aleksandra Babenko

ababenko@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2489

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Baron Alexander Emanuel von Hoyningen-Huene (1824-1911) was a Russian statesman and the governor of Simbirsk. From 1869 he was appointed the Head of the His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery looking after the Charity Institutions of Empress Maria Feodorovna.

For a comparable jeton by Fabergé presented to P.P. Tcheremisinov, see A.N. Ivanov, Jetons of the Russian Empire, Moscow, 2004, p. 119. For another similar jeton, see I. Gorianov, M. Muradian, Zheleznodorozhnie Zhetony iz Kollektsii Firmy 'Znak', Moscow, 2011, p. 169.

POSSIBLY BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880

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