Hi madej, here are some more informations about Maria Semeonova - source: Pushkin Antiques , London. Maria Semeonova (1896-1917) In 1896 Maria inherited the company founded by his father Vasilij Semionovich Semionov in 1852 and she was entitled to enter her own mark, ‘MS’ in Cyrillic. Under Maria’s ...
Dear members, the following article "Nothern Niello" is based on a russian webside, I read last week. I made a summary of a lot of these informations and asked "ya-zemlyak" for posting it in the forum. Photos: private collection. Please respect the copy rights. Andreas wrote:15.0...
Dear members, yesterday I wanted to publish the text below. Something happened in our world, which left me speechless. This is an international forum. Members from many countries share their knowledge. They are all interested in culture and I am sure that many of them have friends in all these vulne...
Hi Qrt.S, thanks for your information „Maria Sokolova“. Not quite relevant to the topic, but interesting to know: „By the end of the 19th century, the position of women in Russian society was not as unequivocally disenfranchised as it is commonly thought to be. Women found ways to solve their famili...
Hi, please can any of you name the maker of my sugar tongs. I guess: АШ , Shikhin, Andrey, Андрей Шихин, – PL 507 - Tver (Kalinin) Thanks in advance. I want to show you an illustration of a niello milk jug with a hunter (Tobolsk 1778, The State Historical Museum, Moscow) which I found in my book: ht...
Hi, please, can you help identifying the marks on my niello tea-strainer? Any help will be appriciated. https://i.postimg.cc/mk2zGRQ8/IMG-8703.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/yxbFQWwF/IMG-8704.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/3wtWCzMG/L-176-6.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/C5kDFY58/IMG-8709.jpg Moskov Orlof, Dimitri Iva...
Good evening Scotrab, there is a museum in Pekela (Netherlands) with a captain's house. Take a look at internet-search: “Jaarverlag 2004 - Kapiteinshuis Nieuwe Pekela” Many "Oostzeelepels", as they are called in Dutch, are shown. I want to thank you for your detailed informations with a fo...
Hi, in 1893, H.J. Top described in his " Geschichte der Fehnkolonien " after a visit to a captain's house: “The seaman's wive kept the heaviest and most beautiful spoons bundled up with a ribbon.” Maybe it looked like this: https://i.postimg.cc/bwgMy88q/IMG-8684.jpg These are the photos to...
what you write is correct: Karpinsky, Mikhail - PL 2089 + 2099, Moskow I looked at Watts p 82. Moscow and St. Petersburg stand among themselves. I looked too quickly.