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Monogrammist M. P. Sh.

Jeweller, silversmith. Hallmark: ???. Worked in the Rococo style in Tobolsk (1772–80), where he made a silver coffeepot, kettle and sugar bowl for Siberian governor General Denis Chicherin (1774–75).

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