Price guide to enameled cigar cases. Enameling can take different forms form pictorial images, as in the Boer War cigar case below, to intricate cloisonne enameling as shown in the Russian examples.
Boer War interest: a Victorian silver and enamel cigar case by Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham 1899 The front enamelled with a British soldier and ‘A Gentleman in Kharki’, length 12.6cm, weight 7oz. FOOTNOTES ‘A Gentleman in Khaki’ is a line from the Kipling poem The Absent-Minded Beggar. It was written in 1899 to raise money for the families of soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War.
Sold for £1,625 inc. premium at Bonhams in 2018
A silver-gilt and enamel cigar case, A. Postnikov, Moscow, 1881 the lid enamelled after a photograph of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna with her children, Grand Dukes Kyrill, Boris and Andrei Vladimirovich, the reverse applied with an enamel plaque painted with the Warrant of the Purveyor to the Grand-Ducal Court of Vladimir Alexandrovich, 84 standard length 13cm, 5 1/8 in.
Sold for 10,000 GBP at Sothebys in 2017
