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Transcription: [double-headed eagle] The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NEW YORK August 18, 1937 #1580 An exceptionally beautiful Easter egg by CARL G. FABERGE [sic], celebrated Russian Court jeweler, executed in solid gold in his French classic style. It follows in technique the French eighteenth century gold snuff boxes with a ground of cobalt blue translucent enamel. Unlike most of FABERGE'S [sic] surfaces, the chased (guilloche) pattern also follows the traditional type used on the snuff boxes and is merely visible as faint rays on the enamel surface. Around the center, there is a broad vari-colored gold band carved in a minute serpentine pattern, together with leaves and berries enameled red and green, giving the appearance of tiny jewels. On top and bottom of the egg, circular caps bear ten-pointed rosettes enameled in green. The three divisions are further elaborated by the addition of three bands of white matte enamel dots, one of which in the center row, is a tiny diamond catch. Bears the inscription which may be seen as one opens the egg "Christ Has Risen." From the collection of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia.

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NEW YORK October 1, 1937 #1591 Small cushion-shaped box of gold and silver by CARL G. FABERGE [sic], the celebrated Russian Court jeweler. It is executed entirely in canary yellow enameled over a chased (guilloche) surface, and opens with a small pearl-bordered lid having a ruby catch. It is decorated on top with a diamond and ruby six-petaled [sic] flower which forms the center of the fine guilloche pattern. From the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo.

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Transcription: [double-headed eagle] The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NEW YORK August 18, 1937 #1661 Small solid gold handle with sharply curved top, by CARL G. FABERGE [sic], the celebrated Russian Court jeweler. It is executed in his classic style with three shades of gold employed. The shaft is delicately fluted and is overlaid with a green-gold festoon and diamond rosette. About it, a delicately carved green-gold wreath design is chased. From the personal belongings of Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia.