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The majority of the egg is enameled in translucent blue and has diamond-studded gold bands and designs ringing the top and bottom of the egg. On each side of the egg a sculpted gold handle arches up in a "C" shape, attached to the egg on the top near the apex and on the lower half of the egg, near
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to honor his Silver
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600:Hen with Sapphire Pendant
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730:Trans-Siberian Railway
18:Blue Serpent Clock Egg
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840:Fifteenth Anniversary
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490:Lowes, Will (2001).
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350:"Mieks Fabergé Eggs"
104:Design and materials
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987:Blue Striped Enamel
905:Order of St. George
880:Catherine the Great
685:Imperial Coronation
615:Cherub with Chariot
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