Sale 1499
New York
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14 April 2005
Price realised
USD 9,600
Estimate
A SILVER-MOUNTED DESK FOLIO MARKED WITH THE INTIALS CC, MOSCOW, 1908-1917 Rectangular, on four round silver feet, the cover applied with conforming silver plaque depicting a bogatyr holding an axe in his hands fighting a three-headed dragon, further painted with the Order of St. George with its ribbon above the Russian inscription 'In help of the St. George Knights, victims of the war,' signed by Nicholas Samokish, the vellum portfolio executed by Gaffelberg, Riga, marked lower left of cover 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high
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Nicholas Semenovich Samokish (1860-1944) was a well-known Russian painter of battle scenes before 1917, during the Civil War, and after.
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