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Sure - I'll absolutely be on the lookout for niello items from now on!
But, I'm not very optimistic as to find a similar item at a similar price.

Regards, Jan Erik

Thanks for all replies! I have had a better look at the inside of the rim, but no more stamps are to be found. So, it seems to be difficult to conclude - apart from the fact that the item is not what I would have bothered to fake ;-) The quality of the items in the images from Postnikov looks to be ...

Thanks for the feedback. I have to scrutinize the item again for marks on the rim, as I think it is welded on to the bottom part. For the knob, it is on the bottom part (i.e. the part with the initials, not the image of the building). I agree that it's suspicious that the stamps used must have had a...

Thanks again for photos and explanation. Would the combination of ПМ (Miljukov Petr Pavlowitsch) 1877-1912 as the silversmith and assayer ИК (Ivan Jefimowitsch Konstantinov) 1874-1882 be a 'valid' combination - i.e. that there exist other known works by the two together? Excuse my lack of knowle...

Hi again and thanks for all feedback. Here are some more close-up images of the marks. I have lighted the object from the side to try to make them come out more detailed, but to my eye they look 'negative' instead (i.e. like the stamps are standing out from the surface instead of being stamped down ...

Thanks again! Not what I would have guessed by the look of the image in my case ;-) My first guess would have been a four-leaf clover... I will get back with better photos later today. For the difference in the symbols used in the top/bottom part - do you have any idea why the 'wrong' mark is used? ...

Thanks a lot for your feedback! I will surely make a couple of new photos with better lighting and try to get out the details of the symbols. The problem as far as I can tell, is that the symbols (the two on the right) are rather blurry and not so sharp as the symbol with the year and the silver con...

Hi! I found this cigarette box on a flea market and paid the equivalent of $1 (!) for it. What I have found out so far, is that it was made in Moscow in 1881 with the niello technique. But, I have only seen one image on the web with a similar sun ray background. I have no idea what kind of house thi...