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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 9529551, member: 78949&quot;]Carl Faberge was a son a&nbsp; jeweller, Gustav Faberge, Estonian immigrant and&nbsp; French descendant. Carl himself had 4 sons who were jewellers, but his company had a number of great&nbsp; masters of silver working for him, either as direct employees or as (kind of) subcontractors. He was very flexible towards accommodating others&#039; craft into his trademark, the only absolute requirement being extreme quality. No compromise with quality was allowed to anyone. The employees in his workshops (there were several workshops in Moscow, Petersburg, Odessa) worked from 8 h to 23 h every day but enjoyed immense salaries and had numerous benefits as long as they complied with quality standards of the company. Tough but very honest and rewarding employer. Died in 1920 in exile, one of his sons tried and failed to&nbsp; continue the company in exile, too. Apparently without the mighty back of the Russian emperor it was difficult to operate.&nbsp; There is a lot about him and his whereabouts online .</p><p><br /></p><p>Although gaining worldwide fame with eggs, Faberge produced many other types of jewellery including amazingly intricate and beautiful silverware. One example in a Russian museum, that same extraterrestrial fish from the other topic, made as an ashtray</p><p><a href="http://museum.ru/alb/image.asp?111106" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://museum.ru/alb/image.asp?111106" rel="nofollow">http://museum.ru/alb/image.asp?111106</a></p><p>B.t.w., the caption says it is a dolphin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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