A silver lighter modelled as a seated Baboon Fabergé under Imperial Warrant, workmaster Julius Rappoport St. Petersburg, 1890s realistically cast as a sitting baboon holding its tail, the surface finely cast and chased to simulate fur texture, its hinged head opens to reveal the lighter fluid compartment, the hollow tail providing the outlet for the taper, marked under base and inside the lid, 88 standard height: 10.5cm (4 1/8in). Fußnoten Provenance Property from a private collection, USA
A silver lighter modelled as a seated Baboon Fabergé under Imperial Warrant, workmaster Julius Rappoport St. Petersburg, 1890s realistically cast as a sitting baboon holding its tail, the surface finely cast and chased to simulate fur texture, its hinged head opens to reveal the lighter fluid compartment, the hollow tail providing the outlet for the taper, marked under base and inside the lid, 88 standard height: 10.5cm (4 1/8in). Fußnoten Provenance Property from a private collection, USA
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