Sale 8974
New York, Park Avenue
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20 October 1998
Price realised
USD 9,200
Estimate
A blue topaz and diamond Buckle by Faberg, workmaster Albert Holmstrm, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917, with scratched inventory number 81573 Both halves pear-shaped, with central pear-shaped blue topaz with rose-cut diamond trellis mount, with hook and eye catch, marked on mount, in original velvet and silk-lined wooden box, the cover stamped in Russian 'Faberg Petrograd Moscow. London' 3in. (9.5cm.) long (extended)
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