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Step 8Fine copies of the Golden Filigree Eggcase
Epilogue
On making copies and the origination of the Faberge legend.
On the sea passage back to England, I had the pleasure of dinning at the Captain's table and it was there I made the acquaintance of the Russian jeweler Carl Gustavovich Faberge, next to whom I was seated on a number of occasions. He was a similar age to me and it seemed that we had a great deal in common. Carl told me he was traveling to England to gain inspiration for his jewelry.
Though I am a modest man, it was not long before he had pressed me to reveal the nature of my trip and the artifact that I so proudly bore to my sponsor. I opened the ship's safe and was pleased to see that he took a great interest in the specimen. Over the following decade we kept in touch by occasional correspondence, and it was by this means that in the early 1880s I first heard of his endeavours to produce a gift for Tzar Alexander III, whom he wished to win as his patron. I wrote back immediately suggesting that the subject of his work should be none other than the Fabled Golden Filigree Eggcase that I had shown him all those years before on that sea voyage across the Baltic Sea.
In subsequent correspondence, he thanked me profusely for the assistance I had rendered to him and later to my amazement, presented me with one of his copies of the Filigree Eggcase.
The Faberge Eggcase is a beautiful object. Pure gold latticework coated with a rich, deep and lustrous azure enamel on the inner surface. It is presented and displayed in its own climate controlled, unbreakable, domed display case, which has been kept under 24 hour guard since I received it over a century ago.
If you would like to be able to make a Victorian glass case exactly like this one Collinworth, old though now he is, reliably informs me that full instructions for its easy manufacture may be found on the telegraphic internet here.
All that remains is to wish you the best of luck with your Instructables and remember my family motto:
Vita Est Vestri Adventum
Kaptin Scarlet
On making copies and the origination of the Faberge legend.
On the sea passage back to England, I had the pleasure of dinning at the Captain's table and it was there I made the acquaintance of the Russian jeweler Carl Gustavovich Faberge, next to whom I was seated on a number of occasions. He was a similar age to me and it seemed that we had a great deal in common. Carl told me he was traveling to England to gain inspiration for his jewelry.
Though I am a modest man, it was not long before he had pressed me to reveal the nature of my trip and the artifact that I so proudly bore to my sponsor. I opened the ship's safe and was pleased to see that he took a great interest in the specimen. Over the following decade we kept in touch by occasional correspondence, and it was by this means that in the early 1880s I first heard of his endeavours to produce a gift for Tzar Alexander III, whom he wished to win as his patron. I wrote back immediately suggesting that the subject of his work should be none other than the Fabled Golden Filigree Eggcase that I had shown him all those years before on that sea voyage across the Baltic Sea.
In subsequent correspondence, he thanked me profusely for the assistance I had rendered to him and later to my amazement, presented me with one of his copies of the Filigree Eggcase.
The Faberge Eggcase is a beautiful object. Pure gold latticework coated with a rich, deep and lustrous azure enamel on the inner surface. It is presented and displayed in its own climate controlled, unbreakable, domed display case, which has been kept under 24 hour guard since I received it over a century ago.
If you would like to be able to make a Victorian glass case exactly like this one Collinworth, old though now he is, reliably informs me that full instructions for its easy manufacture may be found on the telegraphic internet here.
All that remains is to wish you the best of luck with your Instructables and remember my family motto:
Vita Est Vestri Adventum
Kaptin Scarlet
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I know this has been up for a while but I only came across it now. I suggest using those plastic eggs which split open kind of like in Kinder Surprise.
Do the halves separately. Then make a separate "belt" to bind the middle. You can even embellish it with some sort of "buckle."
:D