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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER PRESENTATION CIGAR GARNITURE
A PARCEL-GILT SILVER PRESENTATION CIGAR GARNITURE
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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER PRESENTATION CIGAR GARNITURE

MARKED SAZIKOV WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1870

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER PRESENTATION CIGAR GARNITURE
MARKED SAZIKOV WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1870
On octagonal base, naturalistically formed as a muzhik standing on rocky ground and smoking a pipe, whilst leaning on a barrel forming a cigar holder, with a bucket nearby forming a match holder, both with gilt interiors, also with an axe with pierced centre attached to a hollow tree-stump forming a cigar-cutter, with a detachable hidden base for cigar caps, the base engraved 'Presented by His Imperial Highness / The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia / to Edward S. Sanford / Pensacola Florida. Feb. 22nd 1872', marked throughout, defaced marks on base
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high

62 oz. (1,940 gr.)
來源
Presented to Edward Sewall Sanford (1817-1882) by Grand Duke Alexis of Russia (1850-1908).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 April 2000, lot 31.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
出版
V. Skurlov et al., K. Fabergé i ego prodolzhateli [K. Fabergé and His Followers], St Petersburg, 2009, p. 212.

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Grand Duke Alexis, the fourth son of Emperor Alexander II and future Admiral of the Russian Fleet, travelled to the United States in 1871 for a few months. After staying in New York in November 1871, he moved to Washington, where he met President Grant. He also journeyed to Boston, Montreal, Ottowa, Toronto and Niagara, New Orleans and Pensacola in Florida where he presented the above cigar cutter.

Edward Sewall Sanford (1817-1882) was the President of the American Telegraph Company at the start of the Civil War and served as the Military Supervisor of Telegraphic Messages for the Union Army.

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