An Important Presentation Cigarette box
Silver, 99x71x20 mm, two hinged halves, the outer surface, elegantly grooved, the obverse face, profusely decorated with applied embellishments, a large, centre �NP� monogram, made of chiseled gold, sided by the enameled miniature of the St- George�s Order 4th class for Officers and further, fac-simile signatures also made of rose Gold, �Karl Heinz Stolzenberg�, an unreadable, cursive one, flanked by applied miniatures of a monument, a crowned, enameled coat of arms and a nurturing swan, the signature of �Carl Ohnesorg� (a famous German conductor and composer between the 19th and the early 20th Century) under crossed, enameled Russian shoulder boards and a golden pentagram with A-moll and A-dur and, below, the golden symbol of the Imperial Russian naval pioneers (crossed Anchor and Axe), the other half with a corner enriched by applied gold plate, accurately engraved with the cyrillic inscription �K Yur�evo 2 VII 1916 g.�, the inside, with frosted finish, the inner obverse half, engraved �P. V. B. 27. Septbr 1894.�, many rivets holding the obverse�s applications and struck with silver marks for 1893 and the cyrillic silversmith�s mark �I.P.S.�. A beautiful, richly-made cigarette case, remembering facts, events and personalities from the sunset of the Russian empire, a piece that would surely deserve further, in-deep research, excellent condition. Note: Karl Ohnesorg (29 June 1867 � 15 November 1919) was a German conductor and composer, in 1912/13 he was chief conductor of the StadttheaterOrchester Halle. Karl Ohnesorg was born in 1867 in Mannheim, Baden. His teachers included Carl Reinecke, Bruno Zwintscher and Felix Draeseke. Afterwards he worked as a theatre conductor in Konigsberg (East Prussia, now Kaliningrad and L�beck, from 1900 he succeeded Bruno Walter at the Riga Theatre in the Governorate of Livonia, but was then dismissed at the end of the 1908/09 season in the course of the �theatre conflict� there, he then went to Breslau, in 1912/13 he was chief conductor of the Stadttheater-Orchester Halle, he is also known as a composer of operas, ballets and operettas. I RR!