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A Russian art nouveau style silver cigar box. Makers mark of Adrian Ivanov. Moscow, 1908-1917. Weight: 677 g. Dimensions: 19 x 12 x 6 cm.

Starting price: 4500€
Estimate: 5000-7000€

Faberge. Silver wallet in neo-classical style.
Silver, gold, chasing, gilding, semi-precious stones. Dimensions: 16.5 x 7.3 x 2.7 cm. Total weight: 256.3 g.
Makers mark of «K. Faberge» with Imperial warrant. Moscow, 1908-1917.
Rectangular silver wallet with hinged lid. The cover is decorated with a cast garland encircling a monogram. In the corner, a gold applique with a name «Allia» inscription and a applied gold sign with a flower incrust with turquoise cabochons.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

Faberge. Cigarette case in Art-nouveau style
Silver, gold, chasing, gilding, sapphire and rubies. Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 2 cm. Total weight: 149 g. Inventory number 14041
Makers mark of «K. Faberge» with Imperial warrant and scratched inventory number 14041. Moscow, 1899-1908.
Rectangular silver cigarette case with rounded corners, decorated in the Art Nouveau style. The lid is adorned with flowing linear ornament in relief, resembling stylised plant forms, and set with small ruby cabochon stones in star-shaped casts. The clasp with gold rim is mounted with a cabochon sapphire.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€
Hammer Price: 2 500 €

A Faberge silver-gilt tobacco box. Marked K. Faberge in cyrillic with Imperial Warrant. Moscow, 1893 Weight: 289.1 g. Dimensions: 11.7 x 8 x 4 cm.

Starting price: 5000€
Estimate: 6000-8000€

Faberge. Cigarette case in Art-nouveau style
Silver, gold, chasing, gilding, sapphire and rubies. Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 2 cm. Total weight: 149 g. Inventory number 14041
Makers mark of «K. Faberge» with Imperial warrant and scratched inventory number 14041. Moscow, 1899-1908.
Rectangular silver cigarette case with rounded corners, decorated in the Art Nouveau style. The lid is adorned with flowing linear ornament in relief, resembling stylised plant forms, and set with small ruby cabochon stones in star-shaped casts. The clasp with gold rim is mounted with a cabochon sapphire.
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Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€
Hammer Price: 2500€

A Russian silver-gilt nécesaire. 
St Petersburg, 1908–1917.
Silver, gilding; guilloché translucent enamel; chasing and engraving. Weight: 118 g, Dimensions: 1,5 x 4,9 x 10,2 cm.
Marks: maker’s of Ivan Brytzin; St Petersburg assay marks (1908–1917).
A rectangular, palm-sized nécesaire with two compartments. One face is covered with a pale, white opal toned translucent enamel laid over a finely turned wavy guilloché ground.
The reverse is treated in deliberate contrast: a silver-gilt field worked in the so-called “samorodok” manner.
Ivan Savelyevich Brytzin (1870–1952), a former employee of Fabergé in St Petersburg, qualified as a master goldsmith in 1903 and soon opened his own workshop “Russkaya Emal” (Malaya Konyushennaya ul., 12). His firm granted a gold medal at the St Petersburg Crafts Exhibition in 1909, and in 1910–1917 he supplied works to members of the Imperial family and to the Cabinet of His Majesty. Brytzin’s objects bears steady demand on the English market; he also worked with stone and purpurin and collaborated with A. Sumin. After 1917 he continued to practise, though documentation of his later activity is fragmentary.

Starting price: 3500€
Estimate: 4000-5000€
Hammer Price: Not sold