A Fabergé paper knife with a spearhead-shaped gold blade and a carved bowenite handle in the form of a bone mounted with a gold collar with translucent salmon pink guilloché enamel painted en camaiëu simulating dendritic agate; the borders set with rows of diamonds; contained in Wartski fitted case.
Fabergé Gold, Bowenite and Enamel Paper Knife
Fabergéreference number: FB_166
St Petersburg, 1899-1903
gold, bowenite, enamel, diamonds
length: 18.5 cm
maker’s mark: FABERGÉ in Cyrillic
workmaster’s mark: Cyrillic initials M.P. for Mikhail Perkhin
assay master’s mark: Cyrillic initials Ya.L. for Yakov Lyapunov
gold standard: 56 zolotniks