Sale 7817
London
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28 - 29 October 2009
Price realised
GBP 2,000
Estimate
A Russian jewelled gold-mounted karelian birch-wood cigar-case Russia, circa 1900 Rectangular, with rounded corners, the cover applied with the entwined monogram Cyrillic PP under a coronet and further embellished with a sapphire-set Imperial double-headed eagle, rose-diamond thumb-piece, the interior with four compartments, apparently unmarked 5 in. (13 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 11 June 1998, lot 698.
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