Karl Gustaf Hjalmar Armfeldt

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Born in Hangö or in Artjarvi, Finland in 1873. In 1886, aged 13, he was apprenticed to the Finnish silversmith Paul Sohlman in St.Petersburg at 58 Gorohovaya. He became a journeyman in 1891. Fabergé's workmaster from 1895. Worked for Fabergé until 1916, producing same line of Aarne, like tiny gem-set frames and silver-mounted birchwood frames, hardstone frames, gem-set enameled gold articles and silver figures on hardstone base. Armfeldt's hallmark on articles is 'Ya A' in Russian Cyrillic.