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When you go looking fo HORNstuff its always possible that something quite weird will turn up. This one is a Russian Gem-Set Silver Mounted and Sandstone Match Holder in the Form for a Rhinoceros. Marked Faberge', with the workmasters mark of Julius Rappoport, St. Petersburg, Circa 1890. Scratched inventory number indistinct. Ovoid, the sandstone body with well for matches, with silver mounts formed as a horn, ears, feet and tail, the eyes set with cabochon rubies, marked throughout BTW: the asking price for the piece is $95,000 (US$ presumably) NOTE NO horn or RINOhorn in evidence but there we go!! The 'mythology' that 'horn' and 'Rhinos' is somewhat all pervasive and it is thus bound to manifest itself in unlikely ways.
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