3. At the flea market, a scrap dealer purchases a real Fabergé egg.
Location: USA’s Midwest.
Year of discovery: 2014
Estimated value: $33 million.
50 Imperial Faberge Eggs were made by the Russian business Faberge for the Russian Royal Family. One was discovered by accident years ago when it was purchased for $14,000 at a flea market by a junk collector in the American Midwest.
Genuine Fabergé Egg Purchased by a Scrap Dealer at a Flea Market ©Getty Images/Peter Macdiarmid
The trader was under the impression that he could profit from the gold content, but he had no idea that this seemingly random gold egg was actually a Faberge. One of the eight missing eggs that had baffled historians for decades, the egg would eventually be sold at auction for $33 million, significantly more than the dealer’s initial projection of a “small profit.”
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