Theegg was made byHenrik Wigström, "Fabergé's last head workmaster". Its surprise (nowlost) was "amechanicalsedanchair, carried by two blackamoors, withCatherinethe 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.