LOT DETAILS

Materials:

14k gold

Size Notes:

Diam.2.2 cm

Description:

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Markings:

Engraved (dated) on the reverse 1900, marked Frid.Koechli with the Imperial Warrant as purveyor to the Imperial Russian Court enclosed

Condition:

Original leather case lined with velvet and silk

Provenance:

Wilhelmine (“Minna) Berg married around 1890 the architect and chamberlain Frederik Kiær junior (1856–1930), who lived in Skt. Petersburg, where they had five children. They had both family ties in Russia, not least Frederik Kiær junior, whose father, Major General and Diplomat Frederik Frederiksen Kiær senior (1825–1893) lived in St. Petersburg. Petersburg from 1884 and to his death. Frederik Kjær junior worked with the construction of the Russian railways, but in connection with the Russian Revolution, his family moved home to Denmark while he stayed in Russia for some years. Thence Wilhelmine Kiær's two great-grandchildren until today