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| My very favorite: The Lilies of the Valley Egg |
Faberge Eggs Imperial Russian Fantasies Poster Book
by Christopher Forbes, 1980.This book provides color posters of the eggs, including those given by Czar Alexander III (to his wife Maria), Czar Nicholas II, Alexander Ferdinandovich Kelch (to his wife Barbara Bazonov) and more. Only about ten are the eggs presented by Czar Nicholas II, but there is a black and white sketched catalogue of those eggs at the book's end. One of my favorite of the color eggs is the Orange Tree Egg, gifted from Nicholas to his mother Maria in 1911:
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| Orange Tree Egg |
Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
by Toby Faber, 2008.
According to my reading, every Easter Czar Nicholas II presented Faberge eggs to his wife Alexandra and his mother Maria. This made 53 eggs total.
An excellent website on Faberge eggs is Mieks Faberge Eggs
More to come...
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