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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MaJa, post: 9938618, member: 14649&quot;]I hate to spoil the party, but Scheid has never worked for Fabergé, Bolin or any other Russian (court) jeweller. There is no doubt that the case is a genuine Scheid, about 100-120 years old. However, it was later tinkered with. The supposedly Russian double headed eagle is just awful. I assume there originally was a different emblem or a cipher/monogram that was replaced by the eagle in order to cheat/deceive an innocent customer. And to make the story more convincing, the forger put the case in a (fake ?) Bolin box in order to enhance its value and sell it at a higher price.</p><p>If the case had really been imported into Russia before August 1914, there has to be a Russian import mark. But there is none. All the marks that are trying to establish a Russian connection do not match required hallmarks by the Russian laws at the time and are faint/rubbed so that they are difficult to read. </p><p><br /></p><p>Fabergé and also to a lesser extend Bolin had a fixed set of workmasters/workshops who worked for them, generally on an exclusive basis. But they were all from Russia. In the case of Fabergé there are exceptions regarding some objects sold by the London branch and also the carved stone (animal) figures. They were mostly made in Idar Oberstein in Germany.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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