A SILVER TROMPE-L'OEIL CIGAR BOX, GUSTAV KLINGERT, MOSCOW, 1893
Auction Closed
November 26, 06:32 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A SILVER TROMPE-L'OEIL CIGAR BOX, GUSTAV KLINGERT, MOSCOW, 189393
engraved to simulate a wooden cigar box with a label of the cigarmaker H. Upmann with import tax bands, engraved inside in Russian with 'To the friend of the afflicted / Teofil Igntievitch Vdovikovsky / from / a sincerely grateful patient / V.V. Navretsky / Odessa, 28 February 1896', struck inside with partial maker's mark, 84 standard
length 20.9cm, 8¼in.
Teofil Igntievitch Vdovikovsky (b. 1833) was the senior doctor in the Odessa state hospital, pioneering new approaches to public health.
Vasily Vasilievich Navrotsky (1851 – 1911) was a well-known publisher and a journalist. His paper 'The Odessa Leaflet', was published from 1872 and by 1914 became one of the most widely circulated provincial news publications in the Russian Empire.