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Faberge Egg stolen from Dog and Duck. · Mark and Pete

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  Faberge egg stolen from Dog and Duck.
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  Welcome to Mark and Pete, where we look at a story that you just
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  couldn't make up, but it's of great value I think.
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  Here is Mark and Pete 2 blokes with half an opinion.
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  Now here's our first thought. Egg on your face People who own
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  a fabulous Faberge egg may sometimes be oddly approached,
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  so ensure you don't get in a scramble when it may be pinched
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  or poached. What a tricky situation this is.
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  Yes, and a remarkable story of the dog and duck in London.
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  Yes, an opportunistic thief who stole a handbag containing an
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  emerald encrusted Faberge egg worth up to a staggering £2.2
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  million has now been lost and I must ask you, Mr. Pete, what
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  have you done with it? Well, I'm sorry to say I thought
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  that it was a Kinder Surprise and I.
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  Hit it. The it's interesting, isn't it?
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  Something an an egg sort of ornamental item quite small
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  could could accidentally be stolen is so valuable.
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  So it's quite difficult sometimes to put the value on
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  things. I mean, I've heard of fabric
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  eggs, I I don't even know if I would recognise 1.
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  Well, these things are exquisitely produced, of course.
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  Obviously Faberge, a well known jeweler from the late mid to
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  late 19th century. Yes, he was without any doubt
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  that one of the most world's renowned jewelry makers, but he
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  made numerous encrusted jewelry from objects like and brooches
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  as well as eggs. Now the Faberge egg themselves a
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  world renowned and extremely well known and crucially prized
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  possessions. Now what's remarkable about this
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  is the lady called Dawson put this Faberge egg in her handbag,
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  decided to go to the dog and duck and place it between her
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  legs, somehow completely forgot herself, and a thief by the name
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  of Enzo Conticelli decided that he would actually take the
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  actual bag. Now unbeknownst to him, he was
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  probably thinking, well I'll just steal the money and
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  possibly some of the credit cards.
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  Well, he did that, but what he found also in there was the
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  surprise. As you say, the Kinder Surprise
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  wasn't a Kinder chocolate egg, it was an jewelling.
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  Crystal, of course, when he tried to, when he tried to sell
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  it on eBay, that was very difficult, right?
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  Yes, I managed to get that for a good price.
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  No, honestly, Now the egg is made of 18 karat yellow gold.
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  So for those who are looking out for this and it took more than
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  100 hours to create, it is set with 104 diamonds and contains
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  an uncut emerald from Zambia. Yes, Now it's also accompanying
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  the fact of many in other jewels and gold and other precious
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  metals that to make it up. But I will say to your point,
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  how, what on earth do you do with something like this?
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  Now maybe how can you say you could break it down?
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  But the irony is, is that in it's current form, hopefully it
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  is worth more than the actual inherent materials.
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  So if you do happen and by chance happen to come across
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  this, do not break it down. It is worth more in it's current
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  state. Yes.
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  Now, just a point, we try to look at Christian themes that
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  just, if they naturally arise from the story, there's an idea
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  in Christianity of recognising something that's valuable.
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  Sometimes can be difficult, but if you know what's of value,
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  you'll go searching for it. And it's interesting point out
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  that this Faberge egg is like the story in the Bible of the
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  Pearl of Great Price in which a merchant has lost one of his
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  fine pearls. And so he's gave away
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  everything, sold everything, he did whatever he could to get it
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  back. And I guess that's not quite the
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  same, but those Faberge eggs going for a couple of Miller
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  piece, you'd, you'd do quite a lot to try and get it back.
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  Although sometimes, and this again goes to the Christian
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  theme, we are sort of casual cavalier with the value that
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  we've got. You know, the the great
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  spiritual value we have from following Christianity.
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  We can throw it away due to so temptation or or inattention,
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  just as the lady did who went down the pub with it.
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  Well, I think that for those who have actually seen the actual
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  leg yourself, it, it's actually a relatively small piece.
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  But the, the point here is, is that irrespective of whether
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  this was stolen or not, it's now clearly on the black market
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  because the, the police and the owners have not seen or had it
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  returned. So I must admit that you do
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  wonder then when you start to sort of think about something
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  that's so exquisitely produced as a craft, is it really worth
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  2.2 million? Because at the end of the day,
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  you know, it's, it's actual value as a, as a Faberge piece.
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  You can't really sell it because it's clearly stolen.
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  You could almost argue it's worthless from the point of view
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  of just simply the the egg itself.
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  So I agree with you also that in this particular case it's
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  unusual because of course it wasn't the targeted attack, the
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  target was of course the handbag and of course the thief didn't
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  realise what was in it. So is this just simply that the
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  the thief has suddenly decided even though he has been caught
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  incidentally because he was caught on CCTV using cash and
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  and ironically the cards, he is not confessing just to where the
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  actual egg is. So what say you Mr. Pete to the
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  thief in terms of what he should do?
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  Should he now just confess and say where he's hidden the egg or
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  or maybe some of his accomplices?
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  What should he be doing? Here, well, well, I think
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  morally speaking, so talking from a Christian ethical point
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  of view, he should absolutely say where it is.
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  In fact, he should give it back to its rightful owner.
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  Strategically, no, he should have to hold out because he
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  might be able to get a good plea deal.
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  Well, my, that's true. My suggestion is this, Anybody
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  who knows where the whereabouts of this Faberge egg come out of
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  your shell and give it back.