fabergé in A Sentence

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    Fabergé egg the 1902 Pink Serpent Clock Egg.

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    And 3 Fabergé's designs could not repeat themselves.

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    Fabergé Imperial Eggs.

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    The Fabergé eggs disappeared in the turmoil, some of them never to be seen again.

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    For his third egg, in 1887 Fabergé made a golden egg not much larger than a hen's egg.

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    But this year's egg would be different, because Alexander placed his order with a new jeweler: 38-year-old Carl Fabergé.

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    But if you're a fan of Fabergé eggs, you have him(and Carl Fabergé, of course) to thank for them.

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    Considering how much Fabergé eggs sell for today, it's remarkable how little they fetched when they first hit the market.

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    When a Fabergé egg made for the Rothschild banking family went up for auction in 2007, it sold for $18.5 million.

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    If Fabergé feared losing his best customer when Alexander III died in 1894 at the age of 49, he needn't have worried.

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    Not much is known about the second egg, Hen with Sapphire Pendant, which Fabergé made for 1886; it disappeared in 1922.

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    By then he would acquired nine Russian Imperial eggs plus three eggs that Fabergé made for other wealthy clients, along with another 180 smaller objects produced in Fabergé's workshop.

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    By then Fabergé's workshop had produced 50 Easter eggs for the two czarinas(plus another 15 for other wealthy customers, including England's Duchess of Marlborough and the Rothschild banking family).

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    In the years that followed, the eggs produced in Fabergé's workshop became larger and more elaborate as teams of craftsmen worked the entire year, sometimes longer, to complete the eggs.

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    He, Schaffer, and other dealers unloaded their wares on nouveau riche collectors with more money than taste- people like Lillian Thomas Pratt, the wife of a General Motors executive, who bought the first of five Fabergé eggs in 1933.

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    In the 1950s, the Swingline stapler tycoons, Jack and Belle Linsky, amassed a huge collection of Fabergé objects that included the 1893 Caucasus Egg and the 1894 Renaissance Egg, both gifts from Czar Alexander III to his wife, Marie Feodorovna.

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    Fabergé differed from other jewelers who served the Imperial court in that he was more interested in clever design and exquisite craftsmanship than in merely festooning his creations with gold and precious gems(though his eggs would have plenty of those) without showing much imagination.

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    Museums and most“serious” collectors weren't interested in them, and for this reason, the earliest buyers were able to snap them up for very little money- in some cases paying only a fraction of what it had cost Fabergé to make them in the first place.

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    After realizing that the egg sitting on his kitchen counter was worth a lot more than the $14,000 he paid for it, he flew to London with photographs of his egg and showed them to the experts at Wartski, a London antiques dealer that specializes in Fabergé objects.

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    When the Forbes children decided to auction off their father's Fabergé collection at Sotheby's in 2004, a Russian billionaire named Victor Vekselberg swooped in before the auction could be held and bought the entire collection for an undisclosed price estimated to be well over $100 million, pushing the price per egg to around $10 million.

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