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A Russian cast silver-gilt cigar box with “Crimean war” scenes. Moscow, 1899-1908. Dimensions: 13 х 19.6 х 6.2 cm. Weight: 683 g.

Starting price: 8000€
Estimate: 9000-12000€

A Russian silver-gilt cigar box with a horse head. Makers mark of GR in cyrillic. Moscow, 1908-1917. Weight: 617.1 g. Dimensions: 18 x 11.5 x 4.5 cm.

Starting price: 4500€
Estimate: 5000-7000€

Rare silver and niello beaker with a Taurida Governorate coat of arms (currently Crimea) and Greek goddess Ifigeniaya profile. Maker’s mark of Joseph Marshak. Kiev, 1908-1917. Height: 9.5 cm. Weight: 134 g.

Starting price: 600€
Estimate: 600-1000€

A Russian silver-gilt and engraved cigar box with a Hussars and proverb “It’s pleasure to smoke after a tough battle”. Fitted in original case. Makers mark of D. Nikolaev. Moscow, 1896. Weight of the silver: 471.9 g. Dimensions of silver box: 9.7 x 16.3 x 4 cm.

Starting price: 5000€
Estimate: 6000-7500€

A Russian silver cigar oil lighter. Makers mark of J. Marshak. Kiev, 1908-1917. Height: 19.5 cm. Total weight: 713 g.

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 3000-3500€

Grand Russian silver rococo photo frame. Maker’s mark of J. Rappoport for Faberge firm. Petersburg, last quarter of the 19th century. Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€

A Russian Cigar Box with a Russian Lacquer Plaque by Vishnyakov (?) manufactory.

Fedoskino (?), second half of the 19th century

Lacquer panel, leather, malachite mounts, gilded metal
Dimensions: 23 × 20 × 6 cm

The lid features an oval lacquer miniature of a peasant couple offering bread and salt with produce. The album’s binding is framed with malachite panels and gilded metal and fitted with a clasp. A striking combination of Russian lacquer painting and stone-inlaid décor from the late 19th century.

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s London, 28th November 1991, lot 849

Starting price: 1300€
Estimate: 1500-2500€
Hammer Price: 2750€

A massive Russian silver double-opened humidor with cigar lighter integrated in the lid. Makers mark of N. Linden trade firm. Petersburg, 1899-1908. Weight: 1587.3 g. Dimensions: 14.5 x 30.5 x 9.5 cm.

Starting price: 8000€
Estimate: 9000-12000€

A Russian silver-gilt cigar box in neo rococo style. Makers mark of Imperial Court supplier I.P. Khlebnikov. Moscow, 1895. Dimensions: 23.8 x 15 x 5.5 cm. Total weight: 917 g.

Starting price: 4000€
Estimate: 5000-7000€

An interesting silver-gilt and champlevé enamel ashtray, decorated with polychrome enamel motifs and intricate floral engraving. Maker’s mark of Emil Radke, Minsk, 1894. Marked Radke 84.

Diameter: 11 cm.
Weight: 150.6 g.

Emil Radke was one of the most prominent silversmiths in Minsk at the end of the 19th century, regarded as the second-best master of his time. A deeply religious Jew, he strictly observed all Jewish traditions and rituals. His workshop produced refined silver objects in the fashionable Art Nouveau style, often combining gilding, niello, and enamel.

This ashtray is a fine example of Radke’s craftsmanship and an excellent collectible piece for enthusiasts of Russian and Eastern European Art Nouveau silver.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 600-800€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

A Russian memorial silver-gilt cigar box with engraved image of “Lubava” yacht and double headed eagle badge. Makers mark of Vladimirov firm. Petersburg, 1908-1917. Dimensions: 23.5 х 15.2 х 9 cm. Total weight: 2138 g.

Starting price: 3500€
Estimate: 5000-7000€

An extremely Rare Faberge silver-gilt cigar box. With a chasing cigar on the lid and neoclassical borders. Marked Faberge in cyrillic with Imperial Warrant. Moscow, 1899-1908. Weight: 836.5 g. Dimensions: 19 x 10 x 7.5 cm.

Starting price: 25000€
Estimate: 30000-40000€

Judith Leiber clutch. New in box with duffle bag. Dimensions: 15 x 33 cm.

Starting price: 380€
Estimate: 450-500€

A porcelain tobacco pipe, the bowl finely painted with a miniature scene of the Battle of Berezina (1812) between Napoleon’s retreating army and Russian forces. The decoration is heightened with gilding, the mount fitted with a metal rim.

Material: porcelain, painting, metal.
Dimensions: 13 × 3.5 cm.

The pipe bowl is made in the most famous porcelain pipe form, the stummel — an oval bowl with a knob heel and a short stem, originally derived from the Gouda clay pipe. Its shape made it especially suitable for miniature painting, and from around 1780 workshops such as Meissen and the Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur in Berlin perfected the art of lifelike decoration, often based on contemporary engravings. Painted subjects included portraits, landscapes, and historical events such as the Napoleonic Wars.

Such stummel pipes were highly valued as gifts, sometimes inscribed with the names of donor and recipient, and decorated with imagery reflecting the recipient’s interests or family crest. This example, with its depiction of the Battle of Berezina, belongs to that tradition of commemorative and collectible painted porcelain pipes.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 600-800€
Hammer Price: €

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: €