Rock Crystal Cigarette Case
Rock Crystal Cigarette Case
Russia, St. Petersburg
1904–1908
Gold, rock crystal, chalcedony
2.5 × 8.4 × 6.9 cm
Marks: maker’s mark PL in a rectangle; combined 56 zolotnik (14 ct) standard, kokoshnik and assay master’s mark of Alexander Romanov, 1904–1908
No goldsmith with the initials PL is listed in the records of the Assay Office in St Petersburg. As the initials are in Latin script he must have been non-Russian and most probably worked as a subcontractor to a retail jeweller.
1284MC447/ДПИ