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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