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A Russian silver-gilt advertising cigar box. Moscow, 1908-1917. Dimensions: 17.3 x 12.2 x 4.6 cm. Total weight: 566 g.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-2500€

An extremly rare Russian silver-gilt and guilloche enamel presentation cigar box with a Alexander Nevskiy diamond order badge and gold onlay ”
A keepsake”. Makers mark of Andrey Guryanov (Gorianov) and Abraham Glass. Both worked on Faberge firm. Petersburg, 1908-1917. Weight: 1065.8 g. Dimensions: 12.5 x 17 x 3.5 cm. Provenace: Russian Imperial Court heritage from famouse Luton Hoo estate. From the collection of
Baronet Harold Werner and Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby, daughters of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov and great-granddaughters of Emperor Nicholas I and A. S. Pushkin. Bibligoraphy: Faberge by Geza von Habsburg, Christopher Forbes, A. Kenneth Snowman, Alexander von Solodkoff. 1987, P. 296

Starting price: 30000€
Estimate: 35000-50000€

Judith Leiber pithon minaudiere. Comes with coin wallet and duffle bag. Dimensions: 22.5 x 14 cm.

Starting price: 300€
Estimate: 350-400€

A Russian elegant gold cigarette case.
 Moscow, Factory of Ivan Tarabrov, 1908-1917. 
Gold; engraving, polishing. Weight: 74 g. Dimensions: 1 x 5,8 x 8,4 cm. 
Marks: maker’s mark “I.T.” in a triangular cartouche; Moscow assay mark; 56 zolotnik gold standard.
An elegant gold cigarette case of rectangular form with softly rounded corners. The broad, unadorned panels emphasize the intrinsic value and luminous surface of the gold, while the narrow engraved border lends the object a subtle ornamental frame.
The piece belongs to the Moscow factory of Ivan Filippovich Tarabrov. The factory was founded in Moscow in 1893, was among the notable Russian workshops of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for its refined gold and silver objects, jewellery, personal accessories, icon covers, and decorative wares produced for both private and ecclesiastical patrons. Initially located on Krasnokholmskaya Street and later transferred to Tarabrov’s own house on Bolshaya Dvoryanskaya Street, the enterprise had grown by 1897 to employ forty-six workers, with an annual production valued at 52,000 roubles. The factory was distinguished by its skilful metalwork, fine engraving, chasing, and enamelling, including the use of translucent green enamel, polychrome accents, and, in certain works, red enamel laid over gold foil to achieve a luminous effect. Its artistic language combined technical precision with elegant ornament, often drawing on the Art Nouveau vocabulary of asymmetry, stylized vegetal motifs, trefoil forms, and lobed borders, qualities that gave Tarabrov’s production its recognisable character and secured its place within the history of Russian jewellers’ art.

Starting price: 3000€
Estimate: 3500-4500€
Hammer Price: 3 250 €