OEUF DE FABERGÉ "FIREBIRD EGG" FRANKLIN MINT MAISON... Lot 100

OEUF DE FABERGÉ "FIREBIRD EGG" FRANKLIN MINT MAISON FABERGÉ A vermeil music box featuring a blue-enameled egg standing on a campaniform base with a row of gadroons and four stapled feet, from which a tree appears to emerge, its branches clinging to the egg on a guilloché background applied with leafy branches and scratched with small ruby-like stones. It is held closed by a clasp with two twisted rods, each set with two ruby-like stones. It opens with two hemispheres, revealing a phoenix or "Firebird" with crest and ruffled feathers. Markings on the underside: "F" (apocryphal) de Fabergé" "The Fabergé Firebird Egg, HOUSE OF IGOR KARL FABERGE © 87 FM .925 STERLING". REUGE mechanism Dim : 16,5, Diam : 10,5 cm In working order, very slight lack of enamel underneath. Minor wear to gilding.