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When The Perfect Gift Catalog was created, in 1996, the name Fabergé had long been associated with extravagantly beautiful bibelots, jeweled eggs that had been made in the Russia of the Czars by Peter Carl Fabergé These pieces were all made by hand and all created in the workshops of the Fabergé company which was then in St.Petersburg, Russia. Because they were always made to order for specific members of the Russian royal family with only a very few going to members of the nobility in other countries, in the time period in which they were made, few Americans ever saw them or were even aware of them. Several years after the Russian Revolution a number were sold by the new state, several simply disappeared, and several were acquired by others who were aware of these exquisite pieces. A total of 56 eggs were made for the Czars, 12 for Alexander Kelch, the owner of several gold mines in Siberia, one for the Duchess of Marlborough in England and one for a Russian Prince. Over the years that followed a few were acquired by holders of large fortunes in America, others were acquired by Queen Elizabeth and then in more recent years the late Malcolm Forbes started his collection which has since become one of the two largest collections of these irreplaceable works of art.

The present Fabergé Company came into existence a few years ago and by dint of arrangements with the Fabergé family was able to secure the rights to make copies of all of the original pieces in valuable but less costly materials than those originally employed. As such, they became affordable to the general public and because of the visibility of these originals through the generosity of The Forbes Collection and The Queen Elizabeth Collection and because of the numerous volumes that have been published detailing these incredible works of art, the American public now has become familiar with them and anxious to acquire these reproductions. As a result we started purchasing these pieces not quite a year ago, found them to be much in demand by those who were aware of them and the demand has grown leading to our new catalog within a catalog called simply "Fabergé." Within this catalog you will find, as well, copies of The Forbes Collection pieces made by Artoria Limoges under license from the Forbes Collection. These also are exquisitely detailed copies but only of the pieces owned by The Forbes Collection.

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