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by Silverstone
Sun Apr 03, 2022 6:14 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Maria Sokolova - salt cellar
Replies: 17
Views: 849

Re: Maria Sokolova - salt cellar

Hi madej,

Alexander Pushkin told me this evening:
„We wrote this text a long time ago, I‘m afraid, we don‘t know the source anymore.“

Regards
Silverstone
by Silverstone
Sun Apr 03, 2022 4:34 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Maria Sokolova - salt cellar
Replies: 17
Views: 849

Re: Maria Sokolova - salt cellar

Dear madej,
please read my text from A to Z.

Regards
Silverstone
by Silverstone
Sun Apr 03, 2022 4:05 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Maria Sokolova - salt cellar
Replies: 17
Views: 849

Re: Maria Sokolova - salt cellar

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 ...
by Silverstone
Sun Mar 20, 2022 1:26 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Nothern Niello - Veliki Ustiug
Replies: 0
Views: 256

Nothern Niello - Veliki Ustiug

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...
by Silverstone
Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:25 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Russian silver item of interest
Replies: 4
Views: 398

Re: Russian silver item of interest

Qrt.S,
thank you for your contibution!

Sällström's shoe has more volume than the others and it has no rest.
Perhaps it was made for a cigar?

Image

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Silverstone
by Silverstone
Sat Feb 26, 2022 3:38 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Russian silver item of interest
Replies: 4
Views: 398

Re: Russian silver item of interest

Sorry, dear members! The right order is: ЛВС - unknown workmaster - Moscow - PL 2612 ЛВС - unknown workmaster – 18?? - Moscow - PL 2612 Malcz , Karol Filip, 1827-1864, Warsav, Sreba warszawskie Museum Narodowe ES - Sällström, Erik Wilhelm - 1796-1848 - St. Petersburg - PL 1592 ЛВ - Lev, Vasilev – 18...
by Silverstone
Sat Feb 26, 2022 3:27 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Russian silver item of interest
Replies: 4
Views: 398

Re: Russian silver item of interest

Hi,

a good photo is in focus, you have to be able to see everything that you want.
My addendum to no. 2.

Image
Sällström, Erik Wilhelm - 1796-1848 - St. Petersburg

Regards
Silverstone
by Silverstone
Fri Feb 25, 2022 3:06 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Russian silver item of interest
Replies: 4
Views: 398

Russian silver item of interest

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...
by Silverstone
Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:22 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Captain´s spoon Pernau
Replies: 15
Views: 3152

Re: Captain´s spoon Pernau

To Qrt.S - curently in a blizzard

What a difference a "z" makes! Thanks!

Regards
Silverstone
by Silverstone
Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:36 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed
Replies: 14
Views: 957

Re: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed

Hello Qrt.S,

that's how I understood it!

Regards
Silverstone
by Silverstone
Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:04 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed
Replies: 14
Views: 957

Re: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed

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...
by Silverstone
Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:30 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed
Replies: 14
Views: 957

Re: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed

Dear menbers,
sorry, the name was Sokolova Maria!

Regards
Silverstone
by Silverstone
Sat Jan 29, 2022 9:02 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed
Replies: 14
Views: 957

Re: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed

Hi Sam,

I appreciate your feedback.

Ready for afternoon tea:
Image

Solokova M. - Solokova M. - Rukawischnikov W. - Zusa V. - Aш

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Silverstone
by Silverstone
Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:51 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed
Replies: 14
Views: 957

Re: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed

Hi Qrt.S,

thank you for answering immediately.
If it is not possible to name the maker, russian silver is undoubtedly
"Sugar for the eyes".

Regards
Silverstone
by Silverstone
Thu Jan 27, 2022 7:41 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed
Replies: 14
Views: 957

Re: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed

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...
by Silverstone
Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:46 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Niello tea-strainer 1866 - Teatime
Replies: 2
Views: 363

Re: Niello tea-strainer 1866 - Teatime

Thank you AG2012,

AO = Alexey Osipov - PL 2224

Regards
Silverstone
by Silverstone
Sun Jan 23, 2022 12:16 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Niello tea-strainer 1866 - Teatime
Replies: 2
Views: 363

Niello tea-strainer 1866 - Teatime

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...
by Silverstone
Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:42 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Captain´s spoon Pernau
Replies: 15
Views: 3152

Re: Captain´s spoon Pernau

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...
by Silverstone
Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:58 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Captain´s spoon Pernau
Replies: 15
Views: 3152

Re: Captain´s spoon Pernau

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...
by Silverstone
Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:23 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed
Replies: 14
Views: 957

Re: Pair of sugar tongs - silver-gilded nielloed

Thank you very much Ubaranda,

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.

Regards
Silverstone

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