Dining knives with silver handles, 6 pcs, gilding, niello.
Russian Empire (Russia), Moscow, year 1842.
Length: 25.5 cm Total weight of knives (with silver handle and steel blade): 708 grams, silver of 84 fineness in zolotniki ( = 875 metrical fineness).
Marks:
The Russian hallmarks until 1899, where: "АК" - initials of the assay master Andrei Antonovich Kovalsky (worked since 1821 to 1856); "1842" - year of assay; "84" – the fineness mark (84 zolotniks = 875); "St. George" – the Moscow city mark.
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