chasing
Detailed working of raised metal surfaces with hammer and punches on the front of the metal plate.
crossed anchors and scepter
official gold mark for the City of St.Petersburg Standard Board, abandoned aroun 1896 in favor of the kokoshnik.
double-headed eagle
symbol of the imperial Russian family; designates royal appointment when found on Faberge objects.
guilloche
more than 140 patterns of curving parallel lines used by faberge under translucent enameled surface. See also engine-turning.
hallmark numbers
used to designate the Russian gold and silver standards; 96 zolotniks of gold is equal to 24 carats; the most common alloys of 56 and 72 are equal to 14 and 18 carats.
heliotrope
dark green chalcedony with red specks, from India.
kokoshnik
hallmark showing a woman's head in profile wearing a traditional russian crescentshaped headdress called a kokoshnik, used in Russia at the end of the czarist regime.
lapis lazuli
deep blue opaque limestone, from Siberia of Agghanistan.
nephrite
dark green jade from Siberia often used by Faberge for frames and carved objects.
purpurine
dark red stonegrass manufactured the imperial glass factory in St.Petersburg for usr by Faberge lapidaries.
rock crystal
transparent quartz.
rose diamond
(or rose-cut diamond) Usually a small diamond with the top cut into triangular facets.
rosette
an ornamental disk resembling a rose.
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