A silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel cigarette case, Vasily Agafonov, Moscow, 1899-1908

each side painted with a swan, butterflies and flowers in shaded vari-coloured enamels on a stippled ground within white bead borders, the interior later engraved in Cyrillic: To A.V. Shubin in celebration of thirty years of theatre from the Smolensk Sub-Division of Naval Trade, 28.XII.47, 84 standard

There are scattered enamel losses, particularly to the white enamel section simulating water.
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