Miss Meadows' Pearls

For me, one thing that says summer has come to Sweden is when the swallows have arrived. This haven't happened yet. But while we're ...

We still don't have any snow here in Stockholm, but I suspect it will get colder soon, and the water will start to freeze into ice. So w...

I like crows. They're clever birds. And here is one made in Fabergé's workshop, by workmaster Henrik Wigström , around the year 1907...

As I've said before, Fabergé made many, many little animal miniatures out of precious materials, and here is one more of those -  a parr...

One sort of item that became very popular coming from Fabergé's workshops were miniature hardstone animals. In 1907 King Edward VII and...

There aren't so many Imperial Easter Eggs left now. But we still have a few! Like number fifty-three for example: the "Steel Milita...