Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 14, 2017
LOT 160
FABERGE, MARIA ALEXANDROWNA LORGNETTE Faberge, St. Petersburg, with punchmark AH (August Holmstrom). Made for the Russian market, circa 1850. Very fine 18 ct. gold and diamond lorgnette.
CHF 20,000 - 40,000
HKD 160,000 - 320,000 / USD 20,000 - 40,000
Sold: CHF 25,000
Multi-part, with engraved floral decoration on engineturned ground, sprung lorgnette, with diamond-set crown and initial MA.
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Case: 2-8 |
Very good Slightly scratched |
Notes
Signed case.
DIM. 133 mm.
Provenance: Gallerie Koller, November 15th 1968.
Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (8 August 1824 - 3 June 1880) was, under the name
Maria Alexandrovna (Russian: ..... .............), Empress of Russia as the
first wife of Emperor Alexander II, having been born a German princess.