FABERGE - PAIR of RUSSIAN GOLD and MOONSTONE CUFFLINKS
Each cufflinks circular, centering a cabochon moonstone within an openwork border, with elliptical baton ends. Nice Faberge item. When you touch and hold a piece of FABERGE sterling you are in contact with something very special coming down to you not only from the era of the czars but of an ancestry far more ancient: for it is typical of all the imperial courts there have ever been.
HALLMARKS: '56' for gold standard and 'BC' in Cyrilic for Vladimir Soloviev, Faberge workmaster - please see information below.
For sample we put screenshot from Christie's with maker marks Faberge and 'BC' for Vladimir Soloviev - please see the screenshot.
DIMENSIONS: Diameter 5/8 inches (1.7 cm). Weight: 10 grams.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $5,000 - $15,000.
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago gold cufflinks made in Faberge shop were sold on Live Auctioneer, Sotheby's and Christie's for $16,000 (5 years ago), $17,450 (15 years ago), $22,300 (12 years ago) and $44,752 (10 years ago) - please see the screenshots.
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HISTORY of Workmasters and Marks at FABERGE SHOP: To understand how the gold, silver, and jewelry industry was structured in Russia at this time, it is worth quoting from Max Engman's article "Finnish Goldsmiths in St. Petersburg during Two Centuries,” in Tillander-Godenhielm, et al., Karl Faberge and His Contemporaries (1980): Most of the Finnish masters were only concerned with production; very few had their own shops. As a rule, Finnish workshops worked either under contract or as free subsidiary suppliers to firms who took care of sales. The high degree of specialization in the field favoured the adoption of a system of subsidiary suppliers. The House of Faberge had an organisation of this kind. In addition to the workshops which operated on the firm's premises, many of which were presided over by Finnish masters, Faberge employed many other workshops as subsidiary suppliers.

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