WATCH FOB
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Erik August Kollin (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
This watch fob is comprised of three links set with gold coins in graduated sizes. The coins feature Catherine II, ruler of Russia from 1762 to 1796.
Three links set with three gold coins of Catherine II in three different sizes and with one smaller coin attached to top.
- Object name:
- WATCH FOB
- Made from:
- Gold
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- before 1898
- Size:
- 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.79
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK: crossed anchors and sceptre (assay mark of St. Petersburg before 1896); EK (initials of workmaster Erik Kollin); 56 MARK: initials MD in Western letters; assay mark of St. Petersburg [on clasp]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973