Seal with the Grand Ducal Coat-of-Arms Julius Rappoport St Petersburg, Russia Silver, milk glass and almandine. Height 63 mm This desk seal is made of silver in the form of a column with a milk glass handle in the form of an egg. It is decorated with almandine. The matrix is for the coat of arms of one of the grand dukes, a grandson of an emperor. The silver is 88% pure. The stamp bears the initials of the assayer Yakov Liapunov, the marks of the Faberge company and the craftsman.