Enameled Cigarette Case with Russian Badge of the Red Cross, circa 1908
By George Adam Schneid, Vienna, circa 1900, retailed by Franz Hiess & Sohne of Vienna, fully hallmarked.
Rectangular, decorated with translucent red enamel over a moiré guilloché ground, the cover applied with a Russian Red Cross Badge of St. Petersburg. This consists of a white enameled gold shield centered by a red guilloché enameled cross surrounded by the Russian inscription in Old Church Slavonic gold lettering: « ВОЗЛЮБИШИ БЛИЖНЯГО ТВОЕГО IАКО САМЪ СЕБЕ» Love your neighbour as yourself. Fitted with a match strike, interior match compartment and tinder cord compartment.
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SKU: 228M
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The Red Cross Badge of Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Red Cross emblem was awarded for
1) Services rendered to the Society of Red Cross during the time of war or public disasters.
2) The long and useful works for the society in peacetime.
3) Large donations for the cause of Red Cross (no less than 5000 rubles).
This superb cigarette case, inscribed A Happy Xmas to my old man from George, was custom made and possibly presented by the enamel silversmith himself, George Adam Schneid to a friend or to his own father, no doubt a recipient of the St. Petersburg Badge of the Red Cross in the early 20th century.
