November  2007

Auctions - Russian Week in London

Russian Arts, Works of Art and Fabergé
Sotheby’s London November 27, 2007

Russian Works of Art Including The Rothschild Fabergé Egg
Christie’s London November 28, 2007
(Note: If any newsletter readers plan to attend this auction, please advise)

Rothschild Egg Viewing Times:

• Paris -- October 27, 29-30, 2007
• Geneva -- November 10-14, 2007
• London --
  

  Saturday 24 November  Sunday 25 November Monday 26 November Tuesday 27 November

  12 noon - 5 pm 12 noon - 5 pm 9 am - 4:30 pm 9 am - 8 pm

        

Fabulous Fabergé at Auction
December 4-5, 2007
Jackson's International Auctioneers, Ceder Falls, Iowa

Scandinavian auction houses frequently include Fabergé objects. At press time the catalogs were not yet available. Information courtesy of Willand Ringborg.

Sweden:
Auktionsverket (November 16, 2007), Bukowskis (11/17), Uppsala (11/23), and W.A. Bolin (11/26)

Finland:
Bukowskis (11/30) and Hagelstam (12/1)

Exhibitions and Lectures

October 1 – November 11, 2007
Fabergé in Dubrovnik
The Link of Times Collection including 9 Fabergé eggs on view at the Rector’s Palace in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

November 13, 2007
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Selling of Russian Art in the 1920s-1930s and Reacquisition by Today’s “New Russians”
Curator Anne Odom shares her extensive research on Russian imperial art after the 1917 Revolution.  

Fabergé Ltd (web site with press release Historic Reunification and New Fabergé CEO)

January 2007 - Pallinghurst Resources (PR), a London-based investment firm, acquired the Fabergé trademark from Unilever, the world’s second largest maker of food and detergent. The transaction included all associated trademarks, licenses and intellectual property.

PR incorporated Fabergé Ltd in the Cayman Islands and appointed Peter Carl Fabergé great granddaughters Tatiana and Sarah Fabergé to its Fabergé Heritage Council.
Dr. Géza von Habsburg, who curated the blockbuster Fabergé in America exhibition in 1996, is developing a series of Fabergé exhibitions for 2009-10.

October 2007 - Pallinghurst Resources “announced plans … to sell several hundred million dollars of shares in a colored gemstone business in London as the company sought to use the Fabergé brand it acquired … to market the stones.”

Web Tools

Fabergé enthusiasts interested in learning more about marks and inventory numbers may wish to view the photographs shown on the John Atzbach website.

If you bought a product in 1949 for $871, by 1994 inflation would have raised the equivalent price to $5326. Source: The Inflation Calculator (courtesy of Jim Hurtt)

Readers of this newsletter are invited to share information about Fabergé happenings worldwide.