Beam with a lapis lazuli pommel. “a samphire mace, faceted, the handle is covered with worm-eaten velvet, the silver gilt binding over the velvet is drawn in niello across the facet; on the tube under the mace is written the sovereign tsar and grand duke mikhail fedorovich of all russia’s name in carving across the facet; and the other facets are carved gilded with niello, and the tubes on the top at the bottom are silver and carved gilded across the facet with niello. And according to the current census of the year and upon inspection, that mace has matched the previous books; the price of that mace is fifty-five rubles; and according to the previous inventory book, that mace is listed first in ten. ”. Date: before 1853.
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