Tsar Alexander III – set of three heavy silver dinner plates

Description

Circular, pronounced berried laurel border or wreath, engraved cypher A under Russian Imperial crown, otherwise plain.

Marked Grachev, maker’s mark of Johan Ferdinand Olsonius, St. Petersburg, 1883
Diam. 25cm, weights respectively 642gr, 588gr and 627gr, total 1857gr (60oz.)

These plates were made in 1883, the year of the coronation of Tsar Alexander III.