Sale 8640
New York, Park Avenue
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15 April 1997
Price realised
USD 5,175
Estimate
A TWO-COLOR GOLD-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL PENCIL by Fabergé, workmaster Viktor Aarne, St. Petersburg, circa 1885, with later French import mark Cylindrical, enamelled in translucent salmon pink over a waved ground, with chased and engraved laurel mount and partly reeded fitting, marked on fitting, in original velvet and silk-lined wooden box, the cover stamped in Russian 'Fabergé St.Petersburg' with Imperial warrant 6¼in. (16cm.) long
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Literature
M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, (Paris, 1996), no.58.
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