Researching Alma Pihl
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The name Alma means "Soul" and is of Latin origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Alma Pihl and the Pihl Family Tree
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Some Famous People called Alma Pihl
Alma Pihl
Alma Theresia Pihl-Klee (15 November 1888 in Moscow – 15 July 1976 in Helsinki) was one of the two female designers at Fabergé and one of the best known female Fabergé workmasters.
She was the daughter of Finnish goldsmith (1860–1897), granddaughter of Fabergé head jeweler August Holmström and the niece of Fabergé jewelry designer Hilma Alina Holmström (1875–1936) and sister of jeweler and goldsmith Oskar Woldemar Pihl. As a self-trained designer, she started to work for Fabergé in 1909.
She designed the famous Winter Easter Egg in 1913 and Mosaic Easter Egg in 1914, which now belongs to the collection of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, and also many pieces of fine jewelry of which the most famous is a collection of snowflake jewelry designed for Emanuel Nobel.
Pihl moved to Finland due to the Russian Revolution (1917–1923).
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