the shaped pierced back applied with a tear-shaped panel with champlevé enamel, the sides engraved with scrolling strapwork and flowerheads, the hinged lid formed as a trompe-l'oeil towel, 84 standard. Together with a Russian parcel-gilt silver salt throne, the back engraved with a cockerel and the seat with a Russian saying that a meal without bread or salt is only half a meal, by S.M. Ikonnikov, Moscow, 1877, 84 standard. 2 pieces.

the first- the pins of the towel slightly loose, the edge of the linen "towel" slightly rippled and not flush with lower section, the underside with a large red numbered sticker, possibly from an auction house
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