PENCIL HOLDER
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Anna Carlovna Ringe (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The surface of the pencil holder is almost entirely covered with yellowish translucent enamel on a guilloche ground. There is a row of tiny diamonds at both ends of the pencil. The thumbpiece for extending lead is a cabochon sapphire. A larger sapphire cabochon is on the top of the pencil. There is a ring for fastening the pencil to a chain or chatelaine.
- Object name:
- PENCIL HOLDER
- Made from:
- Gold -- diamonds -- enamel --sapphires
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- before 1898
- Size:
- 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.93
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK 72 for gold standard, AR for Anna Ringe, [On loop] Crossed anchors and scepter for Saint Petersburg, 72, and owl for French Import mark, [On ring] INSCRIPTION ---ABER (in Cyrillic) perhaps for Faber-Castell pencil makers (since 1761) [On pencil] SCRATCHED NUMBER 58320 [Lower band]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973