A Fabergé jewelled gold-mounted aventurine quartz hand seal, Moscow, circa 1890

Property of a Gentleman (lots 1-3, 54, 100-110)

A Fabergé jewelled gold-mounted aventurine quartz hand seal, Moscow, circa 1890

The cylindrical aventurine quartz body with ribbon-twist mount in burnished gold, set with a diamond, one mount engraved with monogram 'HK', the other engraved with a three-masted ship and the word friendship, struck on reverse of mount with KF in Cyrillic, 56 standard, with scratched inventory number 12165, in original fitted Fabergé case

length 6.5cm, 2 1/2 in.