Sale 2455
New York
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21 - 22 June 2011
Price realised
USD 812
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
TWO RUSSIAN SILVER CIGARETTE CASES, 1908-1917, VARIOUSLY MARKED, the larger etched with signatures inset with a cabochon thumbpiece, with a vesta compartment and a tinder cord, mark of the Joint-Stock Company of Moscow Goldsmiths' Artels, Moscow, 1908-1917, '.84'; the smaller case with a linear pattern inset with a cabochon thumbpiece, maker's mark Cyrillic 'P.S', St. Petersburg, 1908-1917, '.84', with later Soviet marks The larger 4¾in. (12.1cm.) long (2)
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