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Russian buys Faberge egg for record price · 2007-11-30 14:16

Rothschild Faberge egg, www.kommersant.comThe Rothschild Faberge egg was sold by Christie’s auction house in London for $18.5 million, a record for a Faberge work.

The previous record for a Faberge purchase was set in 2002 when an Arab sheikh bought the Winter Egg for $9.6 million, Kommersant reports.

Ivanov, a collector and Faberge expert, is also director of the Russian National Museum, the oldest private museum in Russia, which already has two Faberge eggs, one made of Karelian birch in 1917 and an unfinished egg intended for Tsarevich Alexey. The pink enamel egg with gold engraving is large – 30 cm. tall with its stand – and contains a clock and a mechanical rooster. It was the most expensive egg Faberge ever created.

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