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Seven of the 50 Imperial Fabergé eggs remain unlocated; experts and mainstream reporting treat those seven as “missing” while 43 are accounted for in museums or private collections . Recent coverage o...
Public auction records show many artists named Epstein — including Jacob Epstein (1880–1959 and a different Jacob Epstein born 1921), Mitch Epstein and several others — have works repeatedly offered a...
Forty‑three of the Imperial Fabergé eggs made for the Russian imperial family are reported surviving, with many held by museums and only a handful in private hands; recent reporting notes the Winter E...
The House of Fabergé produced a celebrated run of 50 Imperial Easter eggs for the Russian imperial family between 1885 and 1916; contemporary accounts and Fabergé’s own catalogue tradition treat that ...
Several Imperial Fabergé eggs long thought missing have resurfaced in private hands and at auction over the past decades — most recently the 1913 “Winter Egg,” sold at Christie’s in London for a recor...
Jeffrey Epstein built a complex web of offshore and domestic shell companies and trusts that obscured ownership of real estate, islands, aircraft and art, allowing purchases to be made in names other ...
Experts today authenticate Fabergé imperial eggs by combining traditional connoisseurship—provenance research and comparative visual study—with scientific tests like metal and gemstone analysis; only ...
There is no single, sealed “maker’s archive” published by the original House of Fabergé that comprehensively lists every Imperial Egg; researchers rely on a mix of Fabergé’s invoices and notebooks, im...
Authoritative Fabergé sources and contemporary reporting agree that the House of Fabergé produced 50 Imperial Easter eggs for the Russian imperial family between 1885 and 1916, and reporting around th...