EXTRMELY RARE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL LARGE SILVER FILIGREE AUTOMOBILE
Silver filigree automobile with wheels that rotate. Very nice and complicated job.
LARGE SIZE: 120 x 65 x 65 mm (4 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches). Weight: 144 g.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $8000 - $10000. It is a great INVESTMENT.
Recently miniature train car (not filigree) was sold on Live Auctioneer for $9.000. A few years ago filigree (like this automobile) was sold on Live Auctioneer for $15.000 - please see the screenshots.
Some opinion from specialist in Russian silver: "This car is actually Russian. It is quite rare. It is the fourth one I have seen in 42 years. I have one and another is in the Hermitage (!!). The third one sold in an obscure auction in England. Each one is different. It is described in the book on Russian silver - published I think in 1986".
The automobile from Hermitage you can see on the screenshot from the Hermitage's catalogue.
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WIKIPEDIA: Filigree (also less commonly spelled filagree, and formerly written filigrann or filigrene) is a delicate kind of jewellery metalwork, usually of gold and silver, made with tiny beads or twisted threads, or both in combination, soldered together or to the surface of an object of the same metal and arranged in artistic motifs. It often suggests lace and remains popular in Indian and other Asian metalwork. It was popular as well in Italian and French metalwork from 1660 to the late 19th century. It should not be confused with ajoure jewellery work, the ajoure technique consisting of drilling holes in objects made of sheet metal. The English word filigree is shortened from the earlier use of filigreen which derives from Latin "filum" meaning thread and "granum" grain, in the sense of small bead. The Latin words gave filigrana in Italian which itself became filigrane in 17th-century French.

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