A LARGE SILVER TROMPE L'OEIL TABLE CIGAR BOX, MAKER'S MARK BB (CYRILLIC), MOSCOW, 1873

A LARGE SILVER TROMPE L'OEIL TABLE CIGAR BOX, MAKER'S MARK BB (CYRILLIC), MOSCOW, 1873

engraved and decorated to simulate a wooden cigar box with a label of the cigarmaker H. Upmann and with import tax bands, gilt interior, inside of the lid bearing an engraved inscription in Russian 'To Alexander Flavianovich Ignatiev / in recognition for his participation in the navigation of steamship ‘Tserera’ in 1873 / From M.I. Shipova, A.M. Karin, V.F. Sumorokov, I.K. Russ and V.F. Shuleshov', struck with unrecorded initials BB (Cyrillic), 84 standard

width 23cm, 9in.