{"id":5417,"date":"2014-03-19T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2014-03-24T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T03:05:55","slug":"33-million-faberge-egg-found-just-sitting-there-on-the-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/19\/33-million-faberge-egg-found-just-sitting-there-on-the-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"$33 million Faberge Egg Found… just sitting there on the fence!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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$33 million Faberge Egg discovered by scrap metal dealer<\/h1>\n
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LONDON, March 19 (UPI) —\u00a0A U.S. scrap metal dealer intending to melt down an ornament for its gold was shocked to discover it was a $33 million Faberge egg, a British expert said.Kieran McCarthy of London jeweler Wartski said the scrap metal dealer, who wished to remain anonymous, bought the gold egg for $13,302 from an antiques dealer about a decade ago and had planned to melt it down and sell the metal, but the project was put on hold when he was unable to find a buyer,\u00a0the Telegraph reported<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n

McCarthy said the egg stayed in the man’s home until a night in 2012 when he decided to\u00a0Google<\/a>\u00a0“egg” and “Vacheron Constantin,” the name etched on the timepiece inside the egg.<\/p>\n

The man discovered a\u00a0Telegraph article from earlier that year<\/a>\u00a0that included an interview with McCarthy and a picture of the egg in his possession.<\/p>\n

“He saw the article and recognized his egg in the picture. He flew straight over to London — the first time he had ever been to Europe — and came to see us. He hadn’t slept for days,” McCarthy said. “He brought pictures of the egg and I knew instantaneously that was it. I was flabbergasted — it was like being\u00a0Indiana Jones<\/a>\u00a0and finding the Lost Ark.”<\/p>\n

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from UPI $33 million Faberge Egg discovered by scrap metal dealer LONDON, March 19 (UPI) —\u00a0A U.S. scrap metal dealer intending to melt down an ornament for its gold was shocked to discover it was a $33 million Faberge egg, a British expert said.Kieran McCarthy of London jeweler Wartski said the scrap metal dealer, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}