Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1913 "Winter Egg" will be auctioned in December. - Christie's EDITOR’S NOTE: Curio is a CNN Style series spotlighting small ...

A rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg crafted for Russia's ruling family before it was toppled by revolution is going up for auction, valued at more than $26 million. Christie's auction house says ...

It’s a history-making sale for a rare Fabergé creation. The Winter Egg, a dazzling object with ties to Russian royalty, sold for £22.8 million ($30.2 million) at Christie’s London on December 2, ...

LONDON — A rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg crafted for Russia’s ruling family before it was toppled by revolution shattered records Tuesday as it sold at auction for $30.2 million. The Winter Egg ...

For the imperial families at the helm of Russia’s empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even Easter eggs were sometimes made of diamonds. Between 1885 and 1916, the luxury jewelry firm ...

LONDON (AP) — A rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg crafted for Russia’s ruling family before it was toppled by revolution is going up for auction, valued at more than 20 million pounds ($26.4 ...

More Russian than this it does not get: Tsar Nicholas II had renowned Fabergé designer Alma Pihl craft the egg for his mother, the Dowager Empress, as an Easter present in 1913. Here, the backstory.

Christie's expects the Winter egg, one of just seven of Peter Carl Fabergé's creations still in private hands, to sell for more than £20 million when it lands on the auction block Tuesday. The ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Curio is a CNN Style series spotlighting small objects and the big ideas behind them. There may soon — potentially very soon — be a time when even the world’s greatest riches are unable ...