A RARE RUSSIAN GOLD, DIAMOND, AND ENAMEL IMPERIAL PRESENTATION BRACELET, MOROZOV, ST. PETERSBURG, 1908-1917 |

the articulated bracelet composed of a series of oval links centered with a gold heptafoil link, the front enamelled in translucent white over a wavy engine-turned ground and applied with a diamond-set Imperial double-headed eagle, the edges of the link engraved with a band of stylized flowers, with guard chain, 56 standard, obscured maker’s mark, possibly AS (Cyrillic) for Andrei Ferdinandovich Seppänen, one of the firm’s jewellers; in original fitted blue leather-bound Imperial presentation box of the firm of I.E. Morozov; the interior of the box with handwritten inventory number number 25493.

In excellent condition; with only minor surface wear and scratches consistent with age.
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On Imperial presentation bracelets, see Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm, The Russian Imperial Award System 1894-1917 (Helsinki, 2005), p. 200.