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An rare and decorated antique egg designed by the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé has been found at a goods market in the USA. A scrap bought the golden egg at a stall for $13,000. The unnamed trader wanted to sell it for the scrap of the gold. Fortunately, no one could match his asking so he did not scrap the egg. The egg contained a small watch. The dealer typed the name of its and the word "egg" into Google. He discovered he was the of a priceless . A Fabergé examined the egg and valued it at $33 million.

The egg was made by Fabergé for Russian Alexander III. It was last seen in in 1902 at an exhibition. There has been considerable about it since then. Kieran McCarthy, the Fabergé , said: "We have so many but none of them are as momentous as this." He added: "It is a 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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