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A antique egg designed by the Russian jeweller Fabergé was bought at a in the USA. A scrap dealer bought it for $13,000. He wanted to sell it for the value of the gold. Fortunately, no one wanted it so he did not scrap it. The egg contained a small . The man typed the of its maker and the "egg" into Google. He discovered he was the of a antique. An valued the egg at $33 million.

The egg was made for Russian Alexander III. It was last seen in in 1902. People have wondered about it since then. The Fabergé expert said: "We have so many but none of them are as as this." He said it was "the target for every antique ". Unfortunately, the egg might again disappear from public . The expert said it might be kept in a , dark collector's .

 


 
 

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