5570

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 8, Item SC07.02.3.047

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] RUSSIAN IMPERIAL TREASURES Article No. 5570 Snuff box of gold, period and style of Alexander II. Russian, circa 1860. The design, exquisitely chased, is of oak leaves and acorns, inlaid with transparent enamel in dark blue. It is marked "56" the Russian equivalent of 14 Karat gold, the profile of the Government Assay Office and the impressed number "2073." Very lightly cut is the original order number of the maker "P154." [4 crossed out and 0 handwritten]. From the Imperial snuff box collection of His Imperial Majesty the Czar in the Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo.

Mrs. John L. Pratt March 6th, 1936.

FROM THE HAMMER COLLECTION – 682 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Sales records

Other descriptive data:

Hammer Collection, Russian Imperial Treasures, Fifth Avenue

Digitization of the Lillian Thomas Pratt Archives has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Related material:

47.20.272

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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