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After a brutal news cycle, we're ending with something shinier. Literally, take a look
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Meet Winter Egg. It's a rare crystal and diamond Fabergé masterpiece. One of only seven left in private hands, and it's hitting the auction block in London next week
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This little four-inch egg is carved out of rock crystal, wrapped in platinum snowflakes
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and encrusted with, get this, more than 4,500 diamonds. Wow. Inside, handled with care by the way, a tiny basket of jeweled quartz flowers
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because even the Romanovs loved a surprise. Christie's calls it the Mona Lisa of decorative arts
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Commissioned in 1913 by Tsar Nicholas II as an Easter gift for his mother
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the egg vanished for decades, resurfaced in the 1990s, broke price records twice
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and is now expected to fetch, get this, more than $26 million
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Bidding starts on Tuesday
