Lot 338 D α

A Soviet track layer

Auction 1065 - overview Berlin
30.04.2016, 14:30 - Russian Porcelain
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
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A Soviet track layer

Red stamped mark, impressed date 8-2-1930 to the back of the base, below this an illegible modeller's signature? H 25.6 cm.
Moscow, Dmitrovsk Factory, 1926 - 30.

Construction of the first railway in Russia was begun under Tsar Nicholas I with a line connecting St. Petersburg and Pawlosk. The Soviet Railway Association was founded in 1922 and was responsible for what was at that time one of the largest transport networks in the world.
These three lots will first be called out individually, then as a group.

Provenance

Presented to William A. Harriman (US Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1943 - 46), by Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, minister of foreign affairs 1939 - 49.