An Easter egg that originally coat £SOOO, has been sold in London for £BS. Though outwardly designed to resemble an ordinary egg, being about in length and coated with white enamel, it contains gold almost equal to its total weight of At the touch of a secret spring the shell opens and discloses a dazzling yolk. Then, within the yolk there lies a tiny hen, whose wings, comb and legs are wrought of different coloured golds, eyes gleam with rubies. The egg was made by Carl Faberge, the famous jeweller of St. Petersburg, lor the 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 bloodred ruby in a hidden cavity in the hen's back.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22324, 26 July 1934, Page 6
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