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The alleged Fabergé Wedding Anniversary Egg at the center of the controversy. Courtesy Fabergé Museum, Baden-Baden. A leading London-based art dealer has accused the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg of mounting a Fabergé exhibition featuring more than 20 “tawdry fakes” from the collection of Alexander Ivanov, a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. The explosive claim was made in an open letter to Hermitage boss Mikhail Piotrovsky by Andre Ruzhnikov, who has been buying and selling Fabergé for 40 years. In it, he accuses Piotrovsky of “insulting the good nam...

carte-de-visite. Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard invented the process using albumen (that’s the clear gelatinous part that surrounds the yolk) in 1850, and it became the most popular method for photographic printing in the 19th century. Paper was laid on a mixture of albumen and salt. When it dried, it made a glossy coated paper. The process could be used with any type of negative. It yielded precise images (partly because the image actually floated on the surface), and it was inexpensive. It was so popular that early on, commercial producers kept chickens on site! It is an important vehic...