PIN
Creator(s): Boris Rubin Alexandrov (Jeweler)
Currently in storage
About this object
Pin is in shape of the Russian double headed eagle. On its breast, in silver, is a relief of the Smolny monastery in St. Petersburg. Below in gold is an elaborate cipher of five letters in Cyrillic. Inscribed on reverse.
- Object name:
- PIN
- Made from:
- Gold -- enamel -- silver
- Made in:
- St. Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1914
- Size:
- 3 × 4.4 cm (1 3/16 × 1 3/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.58
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- HALLMARKS Alpha for St Petersburg, kokoshnik right (for 1908-1917), 56, БА [BA in Cyrillic for Boris Alexandrov Rubin] [On back] INSCRIPTIONS V.I.Zil'berg rozhd. Bar. Shtakel'berg vyp. 1895g [Trans.: V.I.Zil'berg, nee Baroness Shakel'berg, graduation class of 1895] [on back]; IVOBD [in Cyrillic for Imperatorskoe Obschestvo Vospitaniya Blagorodnikh Devizh; trans.: Imperial Society for the Education of Young Noble Women]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973