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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 6749, member: 56&quot;]I just don&#039;t think this is up to Faberge standards.&nbsp; I think the mark is fake. </p><p><br /></p><p>Got a better picture of the Faberge &amp; kokoshnik marks?</p><p><br /></p><p>The one book I just looked at says that items made for export to European markets had the Faberge name in Roman letters.&nbsp; It&#039;s odd to have both Cyrillic and Roman on the piece.&nbsp; Also, the sterling mark is at odds with the kokoshik mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>This style of cloisonne is called filigree enamel.&nbsp; The decoration is neo-Russian (from that same book).&nbsp; Ruckert did this type of work, but his mark was the two letters as you have noted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another book says that K.Faberge along with the Royal Warrant is a mark of the Moscow workshops, but name and warrant were combined together in a single stamp.&nbsp; Not the case here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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