The French Creoles wanted the Americans out of the French Quarter and,
through some clever marketing about how the nouveau Riche could build huge homes, convinced them to move here.
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.