Lot 51
  • 51

The Nobel Brothers Firm: A Russian gold, silver and pictorial enamel badge, Eduard Schramm, St. Petersburg, circa 1890

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • gold, silver, enamel
  • height of badge 1 3/8 in., 3.4 cm
circular, with the firm's name in gold on a ground enameled in bright blue over an engine-turned ground, the reverse with a view of an early tanker, possibly the Zoroaster, within a red guilloché border, surmounted by a stone tower in silver, 56 standard

Condition

overall good condition, some small surface scratches
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Catalogue Note

For a similar design as pendant, see Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsars, Stockholm, 1997, no. 248, p. 213.