*** Purchased July, 2005 at Red Baron's Auction for $46,000.With Opalescent white guilloche enamel. Adorned With rose cut diamonds and rubies and the blue Mecca stone at the top of the egg. When the egg is opened, the velvet lined, fitted compartment reveals a gold vase of lillies. The bouquet is enameled with stawberry red and green enamel and Cabochon rubies. In original wood case stamped with Imperial Warrant Mark. Signed Faberge and bearing the initials of workmaster Michael Perchin and the 56 gold standard designation. Michael Perchin was head work master at a time of some of hte most glorious creations of the firm of Faberge'. ** Literature: Faberge', Imperial Craftsmen and his World, Von Habsburg, London, 2000.