with six mother-of-pearl discs edged with gold enamelled opalescent oyster and sewn with rose diamond set threads, together with fittings allowing them to be worn as cufflinks and buttons.

Contained in their original silk and velvet lined hollywood box, the lid satin stamped in Cyrillic:

‘Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa’ beneath the Imperial warrant.

Workmaster: August Hollming,

Diameter: 1.6 cm.

The buttons are a luxurious interpretation of modest mother of pearl buttons here mounted in enamelled gold and sewn with diamond threads.