Avenir Ivanovitch Sumin

Avenir Ivanovitch Sumin was a competitor of the Fabergé's art in St. Petersburg at the end of the XIX. century and beginning of the XX. century. We don't know many of his life, but his first class works got his name to the jewellery's world. Sumin produced mostly clocks, cigarette cases and frames which can be found occasionally in cardoard boys, marked with his initial and full name in Cyrillic characters. Sumin used the same colour-scheme as Britzin, with a predilection for white enamel and the occasional unexpected turquise. Many objects, including white enamel cigarette cases and miniature Easter eggs in pale pink, yellow, mauve and blue are stamped A.A., presumably standing for Astreyden, who seems to have had a working relationship with Sumin. Sumin also sold many objects made by Fabergé workmasters.