$896
THIS LOT IS BEING SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE Of rectangular shapes and various sizes; all with hinged covers; featuring the scenes from Pushkin and Gorky, also from Russian folk tales and rural life; all in traditional Mstyora style of painting including an ornate gilded border running around the covers and the bodies of the boxes; crimson interiors; largest: 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.) long by 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.) high, smallest: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.) long by 2.6 cm (1 in.) high; some signed signed in Cyrillic some signed with initials; most of the boxes inscribed in Cyrillic.
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2015-12-12