RARE TREASURES: The Faberge eggs have become a byword for treasures of rarity and value. There are only 50 Imperial Easter Eggs remaining in the world, including the nine sold to Vekselberg by the Forbes family.
Ten are in the Moscow Kremlin Collection, five are at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II owns three. The whereabouts of eight are unknown. The others are in the US, Switzerland and Monaco.
Visitors look at one of the nine Faberge Imperial Eggs displayed at an exhibition in the Kremlin in Moscow.
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