Fabergé ‘Winter Egg’ breaks records for a frosty $30M

Watch Fabergé ‘Winter Egg’ breaks records for a frosty $30M - Straight Arrow News on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00Remember that Fabergé winter egg we told you about last week?

00:05The one that experts thought might fetch as much as $26 million?

00:10Well, it turns out that was actually a conservative estimate.

00:14In London on Tuesday, the rare crystal and diamond masterpiece,

00:18you see it right there, sold for, get this, 22.9 million pounds.

00:22Say what? That's like $30 million.

00:24Setting a new world record for any Fabergé piece ever sold at auction.

00:30They call it the Mona Lisa of decorative arts.

00:32A four-inch rock crystal egg carved with platinum snowflakes and encrusted with 4,500 diamonds.

00:40Inside, a tiny jeweled basket of quartz flowers, Fabergé's nod to spring.

00:45Originally crafted in 1913 for Tsar Nicholas II to give to his mother, it then disappeared for decades.

00:52Just 43 imperial Fabergé eggs survive, and just a handful are still in private collections.

00:57This one now holds the crown again.

01:00This one now holds the crown again.