A RUSSIAN SILVER NIELLO CIGAR CASE, MOSCOW, 1859 of rectangular shape with rounded corners with silver push-piece and gilt silver interior, engraved on front with view of the Red Gate triumphal arch, on the reverse with a coat of arms, surrounded by vegetative ornamentation with sunflowers, marked twice on the interior with 84 standard, Moscow town mark, date and assayer's mark I.A in Cyrillic for Ivan Vasilyevich Avdeyev, workmaster's mark AS in Cyrillic or AC in Latin; length: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.), weight: 234.1 g (7.575 ozt)