This commemorative enamel cup was given to attendees of the coronation of Tsar Nicolas II (the patriarch of the famous Romanov family, whose members were all murdered during a revolutionary coup in 1918) and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia on May 18, 1896, as printed on the cup with the initials “N” and “T,” and the royal crest on the opposite side. These cups were not produced outside the use of a coronation souvenir, so they are quite rare due to their specific place and time of origin. “How in the world did this cup end up in the collection of Riverside Avondale Preservation in the Buckland House in Jacksonville, Florida,” you ask? We have some theories! Learn more here: www.riversideavondale.org/blog.

Submitted by: Elaine Slayton, Riverside Avondale Preservation

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