The egg, which opens to reveal a bear eating a honeycomb, had belonged to a man from Whitchurch.
Halls Fine Art said it had belonged to the late owner of Wirswall Hall, Whitchurch.It was one of a number of items which were sold on Wednesday, including two diamond rings which sold for a combined £23,000.
The limited-edition egg, made in 2003, opens to reveal a yellow gold seated bear eating from a white gold honeycomb. Halls said one of the rings, a 20th-Century single-stone diamond ring with a cushion-cut diamond, sold for £13,000.The most famous of the eggs, created by Carl Fabergé and his team, are worth millions of pounds, with some of them presented as Easter gifts to the tsars and tsarinas of Russia.The egg sold in Shrewsbury was produced more recently by the Victor Mayer company under licence.
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