Edward Doherty submits a milk creamer and a matching sugar bowl with swing handle made in Tsarist Russia.

The set, with bulbous body and standing on ring feet, was made by silversmith Ivan Ivanovich Futikin, active in Moskow from 1863 to 1897 (and after).

It is hallmarked on base, handles and spout with 'kokoshnik facing right with 84' into an oval (Postnikova-Loseva # 3887), a circular mark with 'kokoshnik' facing right (Postnikova-Loseva # 3888) and makers mark IF (in ciryllic: Postnikova-Loseva #2526).

It measures as follows:
swing handled sugar-bowl: 14 cms (5 1/2 in) diameter at widest and 6 cms deep (2 1/4 in);
milk creamer: 7.5 cms (3 in) at widest and 13.5 cms (5 1/2 in) from handle to spout and 8.5 cms (3 1/4 in) high.

Together they weigh 13.5 ounces (gr. 415).

Moskow 1908-1926

Ivan Ivanovich Putikin

The circular mark was a garniture mark struck on small items or on auxiliary parts of an ensemble en suite.
Here the assay office was indicated by a Morse-code like series of dots and dashes around the perimeter of the mark.