Lot 382: OVCHINNIKOV of Moscow -- A presentation album with a large silver and cloisonné enamel design, marked Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1887. Oblong 2° (310 x 405mm). 18 blank card mounts with pocket windows within gilt printed frames. Full blue

OVCHINNIKOV of Moscow -- A presentation album with a large silver and cloisonné enamel design, marked Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1887. Oblong 2° (310 x 405mm). 18 blank card mounts with pocket windows within gilt printed frames. Full blue velvet, upper cover with a silver and cloisonné enamel frame and silver corner pieces, centred with a large champ-levé enamel silver 'S.M.' cypher flanked with the arms of Rostov and Taganrog, the whole within a large silver garland of berried laurel tied with a cartouche ribbon, the lower cover with bosses, wide enamelled silver clasp, white silk endpapers, the front free endpaper with a presentation printed in gilt, gilt edges (one enamelled silver badge lacking from the upper cover, the velvet worn at the spine and extremities). Provenance: Adol'f L'vovich Chamanskii (printed presentation).

A handsome binding with enamelled silver work by Ovchinnikov, presented to Ado'lf L'vovich Chamanskii to commemorate five years in the Azov-Don Commecial Bank between 1883 and 1887. By the end of the century the Azov-Don was the largest provincial bank, and one of the five largest banks in the Russian Empire by 1914.