Theegg was made byHenrik Wigström, "Fabergé's last head workmaster". Its surprise (nowlost) was "amechanicalsedanchair, carried by two blackamoors, withCatherine the Great seatedinside".
Since then, the rumor has been largely dispelled through a lot of uncomfortable chair-shifting and egg-faced hemming and hawing in the pages of the financial rags.