Silver Model of Cannon by Fabergé

workmaster Julius Rappoport, St Petersburg, 1899-1903 struck with workmaster’s initials and maker’s mark Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath Imperial Warrant, assay master’s mark (Ya.L. for Yakov Lyapunov), silver mark of 84 zolotniks length: 25.5 cm

Exhibitions: Fabergé, Rome, Museo Del Corso, 30 Oct 2003 – 18 Jan 2004

Literature: G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Rome, 2003, p. 64

Miniature silver model of a First World War field cannon with a spring-loaded barrel and a loading breach action. Several meticulously fashioned toys of this nature were made for the Tsarevich Alexei. For a Volga steamer presented to the Tsarevich in 1913 see Ch. Forbes, R. TromeurBrenner, Faberge. The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, pp. 250-1.