Lot 328
  • 328

A Fabergé jewelled gold brooch, workmaster August Holmström, St Petersburg, circa 1890

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gold, opal, diamonds
  • width 2.2cm, 7/8 in.
set with a triangular-cut white opal within circular- and rose-cut diamonds, struck with workmaster's initials, 56 standard, scratched inventory number 2926 or 3926, later mark of the Paris Crédit Municipale, later Soviet control mark

Literature

Illustrated and exhibited, G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, 2000, no. 597, p. 246.

Condition

Excellent condition with very minor abrasion to the opal.
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