Russia's most revered treasures

The largest privately owned Faberge collection Return to Tiffany heart lock charm and bracelet was amassed by the late Forbes publisher, Malcolm Forbes and his family. They were to own nine of the famed eggs, including the prized Coronation Egg. The Forbes collection was to be sold at auction by Sotheby's in 2004, however Russian tycoon Victor Vekselberg made an offer and acquired the eggs via public sale for an undisclosed price. Pre-auction estimates predicted the collection would realize between $80 and $120 million. Vekselberg called the Faberge eggs one of Russia's most revered treasures Link necklace and said he would return the eggs to Russia. Faberge's Imperial Easter eggs continue to delight and amaze us today. In the words of Faberge's close friend, H. C. Bainbridge, "He was a genius on the rampage, always in search of something on which to vent his creative skill, and on this quest his clients helped him. Now you cannot give a pearl necklace to a queen, or a diamond to a Rothschild, or a ruby to a Greville; they have them all. This was what set I Love You drop pendant Faberge on his quest and it was just this which made him supreme. It was all those beautiful articles of fantasie, those bibelots for the table, which made his fame the world over. He became the first in Russia to make objects of elegance, taste and feeling; his work the wide world over became known as a style of its own, Faberge."