Lot 87
  • 87

A Fabergé Silver and Translucent Enamel Small Box, Workmaster Feodor Afanassiev, St. Petersburg, circa 1910

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • marked with workmaster's initials, Fabergé in Cyrillic, and with 88 standard. Also with scratched inventory number 18712
  • Silver, enamel, diamonds
  • Width 1 1/2 in.
  • 3.8 cm
of square shape, the hinged covered translucent chartreuse over a sunburst ground, the based enameled translucent purple over a similarly engraved ground, with diamond-set thumbpiece

Condition

probably reenameled
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