A COSTLY EGG
I An' Easter egg that originally cost £5000,-;haß been sold in. London for £85. Though, outwardly- designed to resemble "artl ordinary egg, being about 2Jin in length and coated -with white enamel, it contains gold almost equal to-its total weight of sJoz. At the touch of a secret spring the shell opens arid discloses a; dazzling yolk. Then-, within the yolk there lies a tiny hen, whose wings, comb, and legs arc wrought of different coloured golds; eyes gleam with rubies.
The egg -was made by Carl Fabergc, the famous jeweller of St. Petersburg, for ther Emperor Alexander 111, who gave it as an Easter gift to'his Empress in 1888.' When she first explored its wonders, there was also a large blood-red ruby in a hidden cavity in the hen's back. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1934, Page 20
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134A COSTLY EGG Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1934, Page 20
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