Royalty, Aristocrats, American heiresses, exiled Russian Grand Dukes, Randlords, Maharajas, Socialites and financiers with newly made fortunes flocked to Fabergae in London to buy gifts for each other. This book is the first dedicated to the glittering history of Fabergae's British branch, from its opening in 1903 to its closure in 1917. Using previously unreferenced sources and a newly discovered archive of papers relating to Fabergae in London, Kieran McCarthy studies the branch's structure, customers and exclusive stock. ...
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Royalty, Aristocrats, American heiresses, exiled Russian Grand Dukes, Randlords, Maharajas, Socialites and financiers with newly made fortunes flocked to Fabergae in London to buy gifts for each other. This book is the first dedicated to the glittering history of Fabergae's British branch, from its opening in 1903 to its closure in 1917. Using previously unreferenced sources and a newly discovered archive of papers relating to Fabergae in London, Kieran McCarthy studies the branch's structure, customers and exclusive stock. The most expensive sale made by Fabergae in London, of a diamond tiara priced for 1400, cost one hundred times the annual wage of a scullery maid. It will be of interest to enthusiasts of the decorative arts, the social history of the Edwardian Golden Age and especially of European Royalty. Faberge's works were and continue to be intimately associated with the British Royal Family. ForViolet Trefusis, daughter of King Edward VII's mistress Mrs. Keppel and lover of Vita Sackville-West, A Fabergae cigarette case was the emblem of Royalty, as symbolical as the bookies cigar, or the ostler's straw.
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