Lot 83
  • 83

A Fabergé silver and enamel bookmark, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-1917

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • silver, enamel
  • length 3 3/8 in.
  • 8.6 cm
tapering to an oval translucent red enamel frame, containing a photograph of a young officer, above a swag of bound laurel, struck with workmaster's initials, 88 standard, French import mark

Provenance

Iconostasis, London 1996

Condition

right side pin to hold laurel swag missing and left pin loose, swag can come off, otherwise good
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