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Gold and Diamonds at New Faberge
Museum
A Russian collector, Alexander Ivanov, is set
to open a museum in Germany that will display Faberge eggs and other luxury
Faberge items, many of them crafted with diamonds and precious gemstones.
Ivanov, 46, had originally intended to open the museum in Russia,
but
building costs and bureaucracy issues forced him to move the location to
Baden-Baden, Germany.
Peter Carl Faberge supplied the Russian Imperial court with luxury items in the
late 19th and early 20th century. Faberge is best known for the famous Faberge
eggs, which were crafted in the style of Easter eggs but used precious gemstones
and diamonds rather
than everyday materials. Of the 105 Faberge eggs known to
have been created, sixty-nine have survived.
Ivanov
claims his 3,000-piece collection of luxury Faberge items is worth $1.5 billion.
He owns a 1902 Faberge egg, which he bought in 2007 at a Christie’s auction in
London. The egg contains a clock and a diamond-set cockerel that pops up every
hour.
Among the other notable Faberge items on display is the Karelian Birch egg,
which is made of birch with gold and diamonds. It was crafted in 1917 for Czar
Nicholas II, who was deposed before he could present the gift to his mother. The
Karelian Birch egg is the second to last egg ever made.
The museum is scheduled to open by 2011.
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