A US scrap-metal dealer paid about $14,000 for a gold egg at an antiques market, hoping to melt it for profit; years later it was identified as a lost imperial Fabergé treasure reportedly worth up to $33 million
The dealer flew to London with a photograph, unknowingly carrying clues to a lost imperial Fabergé treasure. Sometimes history turns up in the least likely places. For one Midwest scrap-metal dealer, that moment came at an antiques market, where an ornate gold egg seemed to be little more than an opportunity to make a modest…