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Remember that Fabergé winter egg we told you about last week
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The one that experts thought might fetch as much as $26 million
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Well, it turns out that was actually a conservative estimate. In London on Tuesday, the rare crystal and diamond masterpiece, you see it right there, sold for, get this, 22.9 million pounds
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Say what? That's like $30 million, setting a new world record for any Fabergé piece ever sold at auction
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They call it the Mona Lisa of decorative arts, a four-inch rock crystal egg carved with platinum snowflakes and encrusted with 4,500 diamonds
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Inside, a tiny jeweled basket of quartz flowers, Fabergé's nod to spring
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Originally crafted in 1913 for Tsar Nicholas II to give to his mother, it then disappeared for decades
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Just 43 imperial Fabergé eggs survive, and just a handful are still in private collections
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This one now holds the crown again
