with a hinged lid, the top engraved with a view of Ustyug and inscription, the sides surrounded with twelve engraved and coats of arms and inscriptions of towns in the Vologda region, with fine niello applications, length: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.), with the maker's mark of A.Zh. in Cyrillic on the inside, along with the Ustyug hallmark of a figure pouring water, and the assayer's mark of Nikolai Matveev Igumnov with date of 1830