www.925-1000.com

^The book is véry easy to find by just óne single Google search on the title of the book? If I found why didn't anyone else?

Upon flipping through the online book I didn't find any enamelled work of any Armenian master though....
Happy to be proven wrong! :-)
Maybe post-revolution?

The book is available online:

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All: thanks very very much for your contributions! If I may recap: Maker: (probably) Antip Ivanovic Kuzmichev Assayer: Nikolay Vasilyevich Kulakov (Николай Васильевич Кулаков) And they're sugar tongs (which is what I use them for actually, not daily but regularly. They work wonderful with olives as ...

14 cms.
I was told these were ice tongs because of the ribbed surface of the tips, sugar tongs are smooth.

JW

Hi all, found another one for your perusal: Ice tongs in trompe l'oeil basket weave pattern: https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg length just over 5 inches https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg Marked inside the top (and thus almost impossible to photograph): https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jp...

Thanks, it all makes sense now. I had noticed that the date was pretty early, as Wasily is only recorded from 1895 to 1908. If he was capable of producing such quality in his first year as silversmith he must have been pretty good. As for the rest of the service (Coffee/teapot, sugarbasin): would lo...

The rim, spout and handle each have this tiny mark (Apologies for the bad quality of the picture, but it's the StP eagle): https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg and at the bottom end of the handle there's also this "B" (about 1 mm across): https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg Any idea w...

Thanks for the info!

Oh, that's quick! Many thanks for the info, Goldstein. Much appreciated!
The Latvian mark makes it even more interesting. I wonder what stories this little jug could tell if it could speak!

JW

Hello all, my first post, so be gentle with me. ;-) I have this fine Russian silver cream jug (Height approx 7 cms). Assayed in St Petersburg by Aleksandr Timofeyevich Shevyakov in 1896 (Found his mark on the “Russian hallmarks” page of this forum). Bottom rim, handle and spout are all marked with t...