The rules of etiquette in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries dictated leaving a calling card when one called at the home of a friend or acquaintance and not to do it was considered ill mannered.  Hence, both ladies and gentlemen carried calling cards and the card cases in Moscow and Saint Petersburg were most often Fabergé. This one is done in a pattern of  arabesques that underlay the enamel guilloché with the cyrillic monogram of Nicholas II both framed and embellished with crystals. The case is 2 by 3.5 inches.

Retail: $150.00.  Our price: $134.90.