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Hello everyone, I recently purchased this cigarette case, Moscow post 1908, with beautiful enamel, unfortunately I am unable to identify the silversmith. Judging from the small и and the dots - these are two different family names : V. and K. Any ideas?

These look very much like Soviet pieces from 1960-70 that have been upgraded with fake marks. Either this or completely a modern fantasy

Happy new year everyone! I’ve always heard about these wonderful pieces from Ustug, but unfortunately they don’t come up for sale very often. I managed to grab a wonderful tobacco box by Ivan Zhilin 1787 about a year ago, unfortunately not Niello, however were well done and unbelievably heavy, I’ve ...

Faberge and the trade mark are indeed mysterious, just like
No one can explain the К.Ф. Punch in Moscow as well in the early 1890’s. Most people say it’s Karl Fend 90% of the time, but how come we see 2 times more of Karl Fend who had a tiny workshop compared to a much bigger faberge factory is ...

My point is Faberge got the imperial mandate in 1885, so just like this Lubavin example I see nothing surprising if Faberge did not yet have the trade mark on the silver pieces immediately in 1886.
Just ideas, I posted this topic because I was hoping for an interesting discussion, otherwise I can ...

Here is a photo of a hallmark on a teapot by Lubavin made 1898-1907 and another hallmark on a creamer from a year later 1907-1908 after Lubavin obtained an imperial mandate in 1907, and hence started putting the trademark

I do realize much was melted, but I see tons and tons of Lubavin, Ovchinnikov,Gratchev,Khlebnikov etc etc, even smaller firms like lorie… and no silver faberge production of St. Petersburg from the 1880s survived in comparison…anyways thank you all for your help and happy new years

There is definitely my consent that both the tea set and the milk pot were made by the Kollins and Wakeva respective workshops, where I’m not clear if whether these workshops were exclusively working for faberge at this point in time or not, and if not, where did all the silver St. Petersburg ...

Yes I do know this, this is why on Saint Petersburg items the stamp should be Фаберже or FABERGE, and not К.ФАБЕРЖЕ like on these Wakeva pieces, which was reserved for Moscow. so I still wander where all the marked production from the 1880´s went ))?

Also to clarify when I speak about Wakeva and Kollin I do imply their workshops, I realize not every teapot was made by them personally

Dear Junke are you a 100% sure the faberge marks on the 2 pieces you provided are authentic? They look a lot like Moscow punches on St. Petersburg pieces, I am wandering if a Wakeva piece like mine was not later upgraded?

So to summarize the contradicting theories are :
Did faberge produce silver stamped with the company name in Saint Petersburg in the late 1880’s? If yes, where did it all go?
Wakeva and Kollin worked exclusively for faberge in this time period- yes or no?
Other companies at this time often sold ...

About Kollin mark I’ve always thought he used the oval cartouche on gold items and square on silver, but I might be wrong.