Silver, 99x71x20 mm, two hinged halves, the outer surface, elegantly grooved, the obverse face, profusely decorated with applied embellishments, a large, centre “NP” monogram, made of chiseled gold, sided by the enameled miniature of the St- George’s Order 4th class for Officers and further, fac-simile signatures also made of rose Gold, “Karl Heinz Stolzenberg”, an unreadable, cursive one, flanked by applied miniatures of a monument, a crowned, enameled coat of arms and a nurturing swan, the signature of “Carl Ohnesorg” (a famous German conductor and composer between the 19th and the early 20th Century) under crossed, enameled Russian shoulder boards and a golden pentagram with A-moll and A-dur and, below, the golden symbol of the Imperial Russian naval pioneers (crossed Anchor and Axe), the other half with a corner enriched by applied gold plate, accurately engraved with the cyrillic inscription “K Yur’evo 2 VII 1916 g.”, the inside, with frosted finish, the inner obverse half, engraved “P. V. B. 27. Septbr 1894.”, many rivets holding the obverse’s applications and struck with silver marks for 1893 and the cyrillic silversmith’s mark “I.P.S.”. A beautiful, richly-made cigarette case, remembering facts, events and personalities from the sunset of the Russian empire, a piece that would surely deserve further, in-deep research, excellent condition. Note: Karl Ohnesorg (29 June 1867 – 15 November 1919) was a German conductor and composer, in 1912/13 he was chief conductor of the StadttheaterOrchester Halle. Karl Ohnesorg was born in 1867 in Mannheim, Baden. His teachers included Carl Reinecke, Bruno Zwintscher and Felix Draeseke. Afterwards he worked as a theatre conductor in Königsberg (East Prussia, now Kaliningrad and Lübeck, from 1900 he succeeded Bruno Walter at the Riga Theatre in the Governorate of Livonia, but was then dismissed at the end of the 1908/09 season in the course of the “theatre conflict” there, he then went to Breslau, in 1912/13 he was chief conductor of the Stadttheater-Orchester Halle, he is also known as a composer of operas, ballets and operettas. I RR!