SILVER-GILT TROMPE L’OEIL CIGAR BOX, AFTER DESIGN OF TOBACCO COMPANY H. UPMANN WITH THE ENGRAVING «ТАБАКЪ ПРИВОЗНЫЙ» («IMPORTED TOBACCO»)
Lotto 130
3 5005 500
Konstantin Illarionovich Skvortsov’s workshop,
Russia, Moscow, 1899-1908
Silver, silver-gilt, cast, engraved, mounted
Engraved and decorated with trompe-l’oeil wood
graining to simulate a wooden cigar box with a label of
the cigar maker H. Upmann of Havana and with import
tax bands, the interior gilded
Marked with 84 silver mark (zolotnik) with a «female
profile facing to the left», the initials of the assay master
I. Lebedkin, workshop «KS».
Engraved: date «1935 15/4» under the monogram «АН»
and 11 autographs
Dimensions: 18,7 x 11,3 x 5,3 cm. Weight 613 g.