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Minaudière
House of Carl Fabergé
Workmaster: August Frederick Hollming
One side of the interior of this rare minaudière is a mirror with an ivory backing that hides a compartment for cigarettes. An adjoining compartment holds a moonstone-capped gold pencil. On the leaf opposite the cigarette compartment, the case is divided into two sections: the larger, fitted with a marabou puff, is for face powder, and the smaller is for rouge. This minaudière was regularly used by Matilda Geddings Gray.
[Wolfram Koeppe, 2011]