Faberge treasure to fetch up to 1.9m pounds at New York auction

From: The Scotsman | Date: March 19, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

A FABERG egg given by the Russian tsar, Alexander III, to his wife, the empress Maria Feodorovna, as an Easter present in 1892 is expected to fetch up to $3 million (GBP 1.9 million) at Christie's in New York on 11 April.

The pale green, diamond trellis egg, decorated with hard-stone, platinum, gold and rose-cut diamonds, was designed by Carl Faberge himself.

The egg, which originally cost 4,750 roubles (GBP 96.40), was displayed in St Petersburg until confiscated by the Kerensky government in 1917 and sold off by the Soviet government in the 1920s.

It last appeared at auction in 1960 and ...

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