Solid silver yad Torah pointer, Russian manufacture (?) 20th century
Length: 29 cm. Weight: approx. 90 g.
Jewish ritual pointer, or stylus, popularly known as a Torah pointer, used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading, with a grip decorated with openwork and filigree spirals with a pommel at the end surmounted by a rampant lion. The hand-shaped indicator with raised index finger has lace as the bottom of the sleeve and a green stone as the decorative ring.
Hallmarked with apocryphal hallmarks for silver at a fineness of 84 zolotniks (875/1000), the BC 1873 hallmark used in Moscow between 1859 and 1894 by Vikro and Veniamin Vasilyevich Savinsky and Vladimir Smirnov.