A Fabergé jewelled gold and bowenite hand seal, workmaster Michael Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890

A Fabergé jewelled gold and bowenite hand seal, workmaster Michael Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890

the baluster-shaped bowenite handle ribbed, with six of the alternating ribs fit with bands set with rose-cut diamonds meeting at the top, which is surmounted by a larger, old European cut diamond, the gold collar set with a band of diamonds, the later gold fluted spreading base with six round-cut diamonds, the matrix uncut, struck with workmaster's initials and 56 standard, the later seal-form gold base with marks for A. Fabergé in Cyrillic and the Latin initials AH, 56 standard

length 3 ¼ in.; 8,3 cm.

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Sceau en or et bowénite, par Michäel Perkhin, Fabergé, St Petersbourg, vers 1890

balustre orné de six rangées de diamants, la base cannelée postérieure sertie de diamants, la matrice vierge, poinçons d'orfèvre et poinçons d'A. Fabergé et des initiales AH, 56 standard

length 3 ¼ in.; 8,3 cm.