Details
The seal, a carved bloodstone handle with a hexagonal shaft and an onion-shaped dome, the silver-mounted black soapstone matrix engraved with a head of Neptune, unmarked; the inkwell, square, with a hinged cover, engraved on cover ‘From H.I.H. the Grand Duke Boris of Russia to George Bennett XMAS 1912’, with a hinged hook set with a cabochon garnet, with a glass insert, marked under base with maker’s mark
The inkwell, 218 in. (5.3 cm.) high; the seal, 4 in. (10 cm.) high
Literature
W. Fagaly, N. Raacke, Treasures by Peter Carl Fabergé and other Master Jewellers. The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, 1979, nos. 67, 70 (illustrated).
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