Fabergé egg sold at auction for £7,000

The egg opens to reveal a gold seated bear eating from a white gold honeycomb

A Fabergé surprise egg has sold for £7,000 at an auction in Shrewsbury.

Halls Fine Art said it had belonged to the late owner of Wirswall Hall, Whitchurch.

The Honey Egg is made from 18-carat gold, with enamel, diamond, citrine and smoky quartz.

It was one of a number of items which were sold on Wednesday, including two diamond rings which sold for a combined £23,000.

The limited-edition egg, made in 2003, opens to reveal a yellow gold seated bear eating from a white gold honeycomb.

Halls said one of the rings, a 20th-Century single-stone diamond ring with a cushion-cut diamond, sold for £13,000.

The other, a three-stone emerald and diamond ring, sold for £10,000.

The most famous of the eggs, created by Carl Fabergé and his team, are worth millions of pounds, with some of them presented as Easter gifts to the tsars and tsarinas of Russia.

After the Russian Revolution, the factory was nationalised and Fabergé and his family fled Russia.

The egg sold in Shrewsbury was produced more recently by the Victor Mayer company under licence.