FABERGE - RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GOLD and CUT GLASS BOWL, ERIK KOLLIN
Salt cellar with cross hatched cut glass bowl and applied engraved gold border. Late 19th C. The item is very nice made. 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: Gold marked '56' standard for gold content and workmaster's mark 'EK' in Cyrillic for Erik Kollin, FABERGE workmaster - please see information below.
CONDITION: Very good for age. The item is described to the best of our knowledge. Please refer to pictures and email with any questions.
DIMENSIONS: Dia. at widest point: 5.1 cm (2 inches).
ESTIMATE PRICE: $2,000 - $6,000.
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago the silver bowls (not gold !!) made by FABERGE were sold on Live Auctioneers for $12,600 and $20,600 - please see the screenshots.
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WORKMASTER: Erik August Kollin (1836-1901) was born in Finland, where he completed his apprenticeship before travelling to St. Petersburg. Qualified as workmaster in 1868, in 1870 opened his own workshop in St. Petersburg. Kollin worked for August Holmstrom and for Karl Faberge, and was soon put in charge of all FABERGE workshops, a post he held until 1886 when he was replaced by Michael Perkhin. He was FABERGE's first chief jeweller. Specialized in gold and silver articles, most of them in an archaic style of the period. The artefacts produced Kollin for FABERGE before his departure in 1886 generally bears his initials EK, together with FABERGE's hallmark and are frequently to be found in a FABERGE box. Evidently these pre-date the change of hallmarks in 1899.

WIKIPEDIA: Peter Karl Faberge, also known as Karl Gustavovich FABERGE was a Russian jeweller best known for the famous FABERGE eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials. He's the founder of the famous jewelry legacy House of FABERGE. The House of FABERGE is a jewelry firm founded in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia, by Gustav FABERGE, using the accented name FABERGE, Gustav's sons Peter Karl Faberge and Agathon FABERGE, and grandsons followed him in running the business until it was nationalized by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

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