A silver and guilloché enamel cigarette case


Fabergé, workmaster Antti Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, 1898-1908, scratched inventory number 6692shaped rectangular with rounded corners, the surface engraved to simulate tree bark, hinged cover set with red enamelled Catherine II twenty rouble coin opening at cabochon sapphire pushpiece to reveal gilt interior, with tinder compartment and cord, in fitted retailer's case from Ivor Mazure, 88 standard length: 12cm (4 3/4in).
|ProvenancePurchased from I. J. Mazure & Co Ltd., London, 1984For similar example please refer to The Fabergé Case, From the Private Collection of John Traina, 1998, Abrams, p. 145.