Faberge Box Goes Back To London

**Wartski of London have been named as the purchaser of the box.  Wartski are expert dealers in Faberge and their Managing Director Geoffrey Munn is an Antique Roadshow regular.

The Lapis Faberge box sold last night for $78,000 against a pre-sale estimate of $10,000 - $20,000.  The box which featured on television as well as other media, attracted international attention.  Its origins have been traced back to its purchase (by a Faberge expert) in London by a Prince Kinsky on Christmas Eve 1910.  How it then came to arrive in New Zealand and then end up in a box lot at Webb's as still a mystery.