Cigarette box, with Moscow Kremlin view - .875 (84 Zolotniki) silver, and niello - Russia - 1890
Imperial Russian silver and niello cigarette or tobacco box with a view of the Moscow Kremlin. From left to right: The Water Supplying (Vodovzvodnaya) Tower and the Kremlin wall, the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Ivan the Great Belltower. Dimensions: 8 x 5,5 x 2,5 cm Weight: 79 g Hallmarks: regional assay office mark for Moscow, together with the fineness mark 84 Assay master А. Р (cyrillic) for A. Romanov - active in Moscow 1886 - 1894 Workmaster: И. Ф (cyrillic) for Ivan Futikin - active in Moscow 1863 - 1897 Provenance: purchased at a German auction
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Imperial Russian silver and niello cigarette or tobacco box with a view of the Moscow Kremlin. From left to right: The Water Supplying (Vodovzvodnaya) Tower and the Kremlin wall, the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Ivan the Great Belltower. Dimensions: 8 x 5,5 x 2,5 cm Weight: 79 g Hallmarks: regional assay office mark for Moscow, together with the fineness mark 84 Assay master А. Р (cyrillic) for A. Romanov - active in Moscow 1886 - 1894 Workmaster: И. Ф (cyrillic) for Ivan Futikin - active in Moscow 1863 - 1897 Provenance: purchased at a German auction