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Fabergé fan finds '£10m egg' is a fake | guardian.co.uk view story

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Submitted by loup.dargent about 1 month ago

"Like the curate's egg, the news yesterday about an international collector's cracked egg was good in parts.
The good news was the damage caused when it was loaned to an exhibition would be comparatively cheap to repair..."

  1. >>The shatteringly bad news was that it was not the gem of a
    lifetime's collecting - a genuine Fabergé Easter egg, one of the
    jewelled toys of the Russian Imperial court and worth up to
    £10m - but a copy, worth at most £100,000, roughly twice its
    original price at auction.<<

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  2. I totally don't get what's so great about these fancy eggs.

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  3. This is not surprising at all. About 10% of all art sales by auction and other purchases of fine art and antiquities by Museums are fakes per year. It's just too easy to create fakes.

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  5. @calinazaret

    I know, we can't even eat them ;-)

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    • pinkpackrat pinkpackrat
    • added about 1 month ago (edited about 1 month ago)

    oh well--there's a sucker born every minute --P.T. Barnum had it right. Guess this guy had all his eggs in one Faberge basket he?

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