FABERGE, AN ANTIQUE RUSSIAN JEWELLED GOLD MOUNTED ...
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FABERGE, AN ANTIQUE RUSSIAN JEWELLED GOLD MOUNTED ...
Estimate £6,000 - £8,000
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FABERGE, AN ANTIQUE RUSSIAN JEWELLED GOLD MOUNTED SILVER GILT AND GUILLOCHE ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE, AUGUST HOLLMING, ST PETERSBURG 1908-17 in 88 zolotnik silver, the rectangular body with hinged lid, enamelled allover in power pink over an engine turned guilloche ground, with foliate gold mounts and diamond set push piece, engraved to the interior 'Edith Kekewich, Peamore, Nr. Exeter', Faberge maker's mark in cyrillic, workmasters initials, second Moscow kokoshnik assay mark, scratched inventory number, 8.4cm, 93.6g.
Provenance - Purchased from the London Branch of Fabergé by the Countess of Torby on 2 November 1909 for £18/15s.
Countess Sophie Nikolaievna of Merenberg, Countess de Torby (1868 – 1927), was the oldest daughter of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau and his morganatic wife, Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina. She married Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia in 1891 and was created Countess de Torby by her uncle, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, in the same year. The couple lived at Kenwood House in London until World War I and were close acquaintances of King George V and Queen Mary.
Lady Edith Cameron Kekewich (d. 1956) was the daughter of the Very Rev. David Barrie Cameron. She married Sir Trehawk Herbert Kekewich, 1st Bt., son of Trehawke Kekewich (1851-1932), before 1933 and lived with him at Peamore House. Following the death of her first husband, Edith married Sir Jocelyn Morton Lucas, 4th Bt., son of Sir Edward Lingard Lucas, 3rd Bt. and Mary Helen Chance, on 20 December 1933.
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