Description
A Fine Quality 19th Century Silver & Neillo work Cigarette Case of rectangular cushion form dated 1893. The hinged lid finely engraved with figures travelling in a sleigh drawn by three galloping horses with driver, set in an oval panel edged in a fine gold zigzag band and surrounded by intricate scrolling niello stems of foliage. The back centred by a rose gold coloured stud engraved with LI monogram. The gilt interior having a 1893 assay mark initialed A.P and a silversmiths mark ?A for Petr Abrosimov.