Bloodstone Aide-Mémoire

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by Fabergé

workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890 struck with workmaster’s initials, assay mark of St Petersburg (crossed anchors and sceptre), gold mark of 56 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé inventory nos. 6669 & 5433 length: 12.5 cm

Provenance: Private collection, Argentina

Literature:

For the only comparable example from the Wernher Collection, Luton Hoo, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Geneva, 1987, no. 255

A hinged rectangular aide-mémoire in Neo-Rococo taste, carved in bloodstone and mounted à cage with chased and engraved two-colour gold rocaille scrolls set with rose-cut diamonds, complete with a gold pencil with a cabochon sapphire finial.

Bloodstone Aide-Mémoire

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