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An rare antique, decorative egg designed by the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé has been at a second-hand goods market in the USA. A scrap bought the golden egg at a bric-a-brac stall for $13,000. The trader intended to sell the egg for the scrap metal value of the gold. Fortunately for the antiques , no one could match his asking price so the egg was not scrapped. The egg had a small watch inside it. One the dealer typed the name of the watch's and the word "egg" into Google. It was then he discovered he was in of a priceless gem. The London-based Fabergé Wartski valued the egg at $33 million.

The egg was made by Fabergé for Russian Alexander III in 1887. It was last seen in in March 1902 at an exhibition in St Petersburg. Its whereabouts since has been the of considerable speculation. Kieran McCarthy, director of Wartski, told reporters: "It's the most incredible . We have so many discoveries but none of them are as as this." He added: "For the Fabergé …it is a wondrous event because the Easter egg is the target for every antique dealer and every ." Unfortunately, the egg might once again vanish from public . Mr McCarthy said: "It may disappear into the deepest, darkest of a collector somewhere."

 


 
 

 

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