Fabergé egg found by a scrap dealer going on display at the V&A
As part of an exhibition about the famous Russian jewellery maker, one of the ‘missing’ eggs created by Fabergé that was lost for many years will go on display in London.
The Fabergé egg appeared at an auction in New York in 1964, but was unrecognised and then disappeared until 2011, when it was bought at a flea market simply for its weight in gold to be melted down. The buyer, who tried several times to sell it for scrap later saw an image of the egg in a newspaper art
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