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Re: Faberge/Cartier Exhibition Munich

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Janet Whitcomb:
Thomas, I am pea green with envy!!!  :P  What a magnificent exhibit!  The display featuring those last two Faberge eggs is particularly intriguing, but I also confess a macabre interest in that still-bloodstained shirt.

In the early 1990s I visited an exhibit in San Diego, CA. re: Faberge eggs only . . . but according to the news releases, this exhibit featured more Faberge eggs than at any other time since the fall of the Tsar.  As you can imagine, it was an incredible experience.  Imagine being so close to the egg with the small windup train that you could actually look through the windows of the train cars to the other side!

Nick_Nicholson:
Thomas,

In the catalogue are there photographs of the unfinished Constellation Egg and the Birch Egg of 1918?

Best,

Nick

NAAOTMA:
Thomas, I too am pea green with envy! Could you please tell us more about the last two Faberge eggs that were never delivered (your descriptions of the exhibit are wonderful, by the way!)...we love your details!  Melissa K.

Robert_Hall:
I join Janet in the envy part !!
The unfinished "eggs" have always intrigued me.
I think I could pass on the  "bloodstained shirt" , not being macabre, just surprised it still exists !!

jcl:
In Forbes magazine a few weeks ago (maybe the April 9th edition? I'm sorry I'm not sure, someone tore out the page to give it to me) there was an article on the "lost eggs" along with speculation about where they might be. The Birch Egg and the Constellation Egg were pictured; the concluding paragraph referred to the fact that in 1917 the last invoice for the undelivered egg was not made out to  The Czar of All the Russias, but simply to Mr. Romanov.

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