World’s Most Expensive Faberge’s Egg at $18.5 Million

November 28th, 2007 by admin | Filed under world record.

This egg is not your typical breakfast favorite as it is the world’s most expensive Faberge egg. It fetched a whopping $18.5 Million in an auction at Christie’s.

Worlds Most Expensive Faberges Egg at $18.5 MillionThe translucent pink egg contains a clock and animated cockerel and had never been seen in public before the sale was announced.

A spokesman for Christie’s said a tense auction room burst into applause when the hammer went down. The piece, not publicly documented when it was made in 1902 for the Rothschild family, went to an unidentified private Russian buyer, he added.

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