August Frederik Hollming
August Frederik Hollming (or Golming), Finnish and Russian silver- and goldsmith, Fabergé workmaster.
He was born in 1854 in Loppi, Finland as a son of a bookkeeper Anders Gustaf Hollming of Loviisa and of Katarina Petterson. Hollming was apprenticed to the goldsmith Karl F. Ekholm in Helsinki at the beginning of the 1870s years. In 1876 he settled in St.Petersburg and registered as a goldworker. In 1880 he qualified as master and opened his workshop at 35 Kazanskaya Street and was hired by Fabergé soon. He had three sons from Erika G. Abrahamsson. In 1900 the Hollming workshop moved to 24 Bolshaya Morskaya under the same roof as Fabergé. In 1913 he ran the workshop together with Otto Hanhinen, his father's assistant. He mainly produced cigarette-cases in silver, gold and enamel, miniature Easter Eggs and small gem-set, enameled jewels such as cuff-links, brooches and pins. Many times he produced these objects for the House of Fabergé.
In 2016 his work figured prominently on the Antiques Roadshow when four buttons he made, that were at the bottom of a box someone bought for £2.26, were valued at £1,000 tot £1,500.[1]