Top 10, Beautiful and Expensive Imperial Egg of Russia from the House of Faberge
In 2010, an American scrapmetal dealer visited an antique stall somewhere in the United States and purchased a golden egg sitting on a threelegged stand. The egg was adorned with diamonds and sapphires, and it opened to reveal a clock. Intending to sell the object to a buyer who would melt it down for its component metals, the dealer purchased this eggclock for 13, 302. He then had trouble selling it, as potential buyers deemed it overpriced. The dealer had valued it incorrectlybut not the way he originally thought. In 2014, the manwho remains anonymousdiscovered that his little golden objet dart was one of the 50 exquisitely bespoke Fabergé Easter eggs created for imperial Russias royal Romanov family. Its value An estimated 33 million. The Romanovs extravagant royal Easter egg tradition began with Czar Alexander III in 1885. Alexander was then in the fifth year of his reign, having succeeded his father, Alexander II, who had been killed by bombwielding assassins. In 1885, Alexander sought an E
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