A Fabergé jeweled gold and guilloché enamel commemorative jeton, workmaster Eduard Schramm, St. Petersburg, 1915

the front enameled translucent oyster over a sunburst ground, applied with a gold figure of a bird, the enameled coat-of-arms of several Imperial Russian regions, and set with sapphires, on the reverse in blue champlevé Cyrillic is the dedicatory inscription "To Leonid Semonovich Rakitin in Fond Memory from the Novor[ossiisk] Soc[iety] of Hunting Enth[usiasts]," struck with workmaster's initials, 56 standard

Bright and attractive; overall very good condition; a tiny space between one prong and the gemstone at upper right, the reverse with some slight surface rubbing
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Major General Leonid Semenovich Rakitin (1878-1962) served in World War I and in the White Army, before evacuating to Yugoslavia in 1920. He emigrated to Paris in 1928. The Novorossisskoe Society of Hunting Enthusiasts was one of Russia's earliest and was famous for the parties and entertainments they organized in Odessa when hunting was out of season.