A Fabergé jewelled gold and bowenite hand seal, workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890 and later

of baluster form, the curved bowenite body divided into six sections by vertical bands of rose-cut diamonds, surmounted by a larger diamond, the rose-gold collar also set with a band of rose-cut diamonds, the later fluted gold base set with six round-cut diamonds, the matrix uncut, struck to collar with workmaster's initials and 56 standard, the later seal-form gold base with marks for A. Fabergé in Cyrillic and the Latin initials A.H, 56 standard and control mark

height 8.2cm, 3 ¼ in.