The rectangular case, inscribed to the interior "May 12, 1931", measuring approximately 85 x 74 x 15mm, signed Cartier and numbered, the lighter of column design decorated with an enamel pennant of the rear-Admiral's squadron of The Imperial Russian Navy 1700-1917, signed Cartier and numbered.

Cigarette case signed Cartier and stamped 14k for 14 carat gold, weighing approximately 128 grams, numbered 92. Minor abrasions and some small dents commensurate with age and wear, and small dent to top left hand corner. Lighter signed Cartier and numbered 2095, Pat. App'd For. Minor abrasions and some small dents commensurate with age and wear.
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Vadim S. Makaroff was the son of Admiral Stepan Makarov, 8^th January 1849-13^th April 1904.  He was a Russian vice-admiral and highly decorated commander of the Imperial Russian Navy, author of several books and designed a number of ships, in his honour the town of Shiritoru on Sakhalin Island was renamed Makarov in 1946. He was born in the Ukraine and joined the Imperial Russian Navy in 1863 where he served as a cadet aboard a clipper of the Pacific Fleet, serving with the Baltic Fleet between 1867 and 1876. During the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878, he was highly decorated for his services as a captain of the torpedo boat tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin, being one of the first to adopt the concept of torpedo boats. He later was responsible for designing two icebreaking steam ships to connect the Trans-Siberian Railway across Lake Baikal. After the Imperial Japanese Navy’s surprise attack at Port Arthur on the 9^th February in 1904 Admiral Makarov was sent to command the Imperial Russian Navy’s battle fleet where his actions were instrumental in repelling the Japanese attack. When his flagship Petopavlovsk struck a Japanese mine near to the entrance of Port Arthur and sank. Admiral Makarov went down with his ship. The admiral’s remains along with those of five of his officers were recovered by a Japanese salvage team, and in 1913 the officers and crew of the Japanese cruiser Akitsushima presided over the funeral in the military cemetery of Port Arthur.