Why map reading can pay

IT wasn't just the London auction rooms that benefitted from the Russian influx last week. On November 29, Wilkinson's of Doncaster offered this 19th century Russian silver and niello work box.

The lid of the 3in (9cm) diameter box is engraved with an aerial map, with a numbered key inscribed …

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