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I recently inherited a Russian Podstannik. Based on my research so far, it looks like it has a "second generation" Kokoshnik mark from Moscow - see first image below. It's VERY small and very difficult to get a good photo of, but I have attached below the best image I could get. You can ba...

Hi AG2012, thanks for your comments. I think looking into legislation would be really interesting. My Russian is pretty poor so I will have to rely on family in that case - and I will have to find a way to motivate them! I guess I can also look into Pavel Ovchinnikov's life to see if there are any e...

Hello again Qrt.S It's a reasonable point you make. I am asking family now to see if they have any idea when the shot glass was acquired. Perhaps it was just to transport the value as you mention...although I still also have about 15 000 Rubles in bills in my possession so they were willing to carry...

Thank you Qrt.S. I understand where you are coming from, but I wonder why the Bolsheviks would be so careful to only destroy the makers mark and not touch anything else? Also, since the shot glass is dated 1875, my guess is that it's been in my family's possession the whole time. My great-grandfathe...

Thanks Ubaranda - Have you ever seen a hallmark destroyed like this before? If this is indeed what happened, it was done very carefully so as not to disturb the other markings which is very strange (at least to me). Do you (or anyone else) know if this is common? Are there other examples of this hap...

I recently inherited my grandfather's Russian shotglass. Family lore tells me he brought this with him when he immigrated to the US in the 1920s. I have been able to identify the city (Moscow) and the Assayer's Mark (Ivan Konstantinov) but I can't determine the maker's hallmark. The more I look, the...