Up to seven other imperial Faberge eggs are still missing.
“It's a story that deserves to be told because it could so easily have slipped away,” McCarthy said.
The Third Imperial Egg survived a revolution and the Soviet sell-off. It went through a New York auction labeled as a gold watch. Then it was nearly melted down for a $500 profit.
It was saved by the simplest thing. Nobody would pay the scrap dealer's price.
