Lot Essay
For a comparable Vindavo-Rybinsk Railway jeton, see I. Gorianov, M. Muradian, Zheleznodorozhnie Zhetony iz Kollektsii Firmy 'Znak', Moscow, 2011, pp. 92-93.
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THE MOSCOW-VINDAVO-RYBINSK JETON, WITH MARK OF ALEXANDER TILLANDER, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908; THE OTHERS, RUSSIA, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF TWO GOLD AND ENAMEL RAILWAY JETONS AND FIVE SILVER BADGES
THE MOSCOW-VINDAVO-RYBINSK JETON, WITH MARK OF ALEXANDER TILLANDER, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908; THE OTHERS, RUSSIA, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY
One jeton, inscribed in Russian ‘Society of Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk Railway’, the reverse applied with anchor and inscribed in Russian ‘V.A. Nagrodskii’, marked on loop; the other jeton, applied with a tram and inscribed in Russian ‘Yelisavetgrad city railway / 1897’, the reverse inscribed in Russian ‘Ludwig Yakovlevich Kaufmann’, marked on loop; together with four silver badges of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum and one enamel silver jeton of the Red Cross Society of Saint Elizabeth, 2nd Class
1 5/8 in. (4.3 cm.) high and smaller
THE MOSCOW-VINDAVO-RYBINSK JETON, WITH MARK OF ALEXANDER TILLANDER, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908; THE OTHERS, RUSSIA, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY
One jeton, inscribed in Russian ‘Society of Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk Railway’, the reverse applied with anchor and inscribed in Russian ‘V.A. Nagrodskii’, marked on loop; the other jeton, applied with a tram and inscribed in Russian ‘Yelisavetgrad city railway / 1897’, the reverse inscribed in Russian ‘Ludwig Yakovlevich Kaufmann’, marked on loop; together with four silver badges of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum and one enamel silver jeton of the Red Cross Society of Saint Elizabeth, 2nd Class
1 5/8 in. (4.3 cm.) high and smaller
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