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Materials:

gem-set and silver-gilt

Size Notes:

Weight c. 152 gr

Description:

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Markings:

scratched inventory no 17012

Provenance:

The danish businessman and finance minister H. P. Hjerl Hansen (1870–1946). As a young man, he was employed in the butter company E. F. Esmann in Odense and became co-owner when he was only 27 years old. E. F. Esmann was expanding in the following years, including in Siberia. In 1904, H. P. Hjerl Hansen became director of A/S The Siberian Company to export Siberian butter to Denmark, and he stayed several times in Russia. According to the family information, the entire factory in Russia was burned down during the Russian revolution. However, home in Denmark, H. P. Hjerl Hansen was still full of business initiatives - founded his own company and joined a number of board and committee posts.      Due to H. P. Hjerl Hansen's extensive knowledge of Russia, he was a member of the Danish government delegation in Moscow 1923 to negotiate Denmark's diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union, which was ratified in 1924. H. P. Hjerl Hansen's notes from 1923 showed that he purchased several items during his stay in Russia, including this case, which costs 17 chervontsi (a former gold coin and monetary unit of the USSR, one chervontsi was equal to ten rubles). Thence by denscents until today