# How much for a Fabergé spider brooch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 7, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892 "2010-09-07T05:46:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/21 "2011-01-11T18:08:38Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > I just saw this episode last night. GAH! I saw that that one was a rerun, and I didn’t see the brooch in the description; so I deleted it! ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/23 "2011-06-01T12:17:33Z")
> [@Alphonse12](#): > > this guy posted the value of brooch > > [http://randomlyheard.com/?p=10](http://randomlyheard.com/?p=10) Um, "Well I have found it, It turns out the faberge spider brooch is worth an estimated $80k! " isn’t much of a cite. Hardly enough to raise this zombie… ---
**Author:** ![Neptunian\_Slug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Neptunian\_Slug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptunian_Slug)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/24 "2011-06-01T13:39:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > $5 says that if the cameras weren’t there, Rick would have given her $2000. Probably, but Rick makes a good bit of cash simply because the cameras are there. When I was in Vegas this past March, I drove by the shop and there was a line to get in the place. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/25 "2011-06-01T14:50:42Z")
We generally drive past the place every time we are in town. Same thing…line down the street. Rick’s no dummy. They are making bank on that show. Enough that I’ll bet the Old Man actually smiles when he gets his check. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/26 "2011-06-01T23:44:24Z")
To get back to the original topic, I’m still of the opinion that the spider brooch was NOT FABERGE. It just wasn’t. I"ve seen nothing offered to say it was. By FABERGE, I mean an item created in the workshop of Peter Carl Faberge prior to 1918. At best, it’s a modern(1950-today) imitation. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/27 "2011-06-02T01:13:17Z")
More updates. Looks like Pawnstars [may not have made the best appraisal decision in throwing 15K at that brooch.](http://dannahoover.blogspot.com/2011/01/is-15000-faberge-spider-brooch-big.html) > [@](#): > > The Faberge company speaks up > > There’s the House of Faberge company. The possibility of a Faberge spider brooch got them involved. The reports of a Faberge spider brooch are “untrue and unfounded” according to spokeswoman for the company Tatiana Zherebkina who sent an e-mail to “Time” magazine while stating that an eight legged brooch does “not fit into the luxury jeweler’s creative vision.” Interesting to note is that this is actually the new Faberge company. All records on the company aren’t even there. All of the jeweler’s workshops were ransacked in 1917. In Switzerland, Peter Carl Faberge died. There was then a 92 year wait before his descendants re-launched the firm. The Faberge spider brooch might be a very expensive piece of spider jewelry or may actually be the artwork expected. ---
**Author:** ![extramedium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aeb1de/32.png) [@extramedium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/extramedium)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/28 "2011-09-24T01:05:57Z")
> [@astro](#): > > More updates. Looks like Pawnstars [may not have made the best appraisal decision in throwing 15K at that brooch.](http://dannahoover.blogspot.com/2011/01/is-15000-faberge-spider-brooch-big.html) That article which was cited in that seemingly pointless blog-post, refers to interest in, and rumors that Faberge makes a spider brooch currently. It has nothing to do with the brooch they bought on pawn stars. You can also bet that before he paid $15,000 he had an expert look at it off camera. Remember, this is TV here and that entire exchange between the two was probably set up well in advance. Rich doesn’t actually stand there all day and say “what do you got there buddy?” to random people hoping that one of them has a treasure while the camera is on him. All those people and items on the show are screened like crazy. ---
**Author:** ![ginofrater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4af34b/32.png) [@ginofrater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ginofrater)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/29 "2011-10-11T07:59:12Z")
\*\*\*\*Did you guys stop for a second and remember that we are talking about a TV show ? The producers of can bring any thing they whant to the show…it is a show, it is a tv show…who will take a tv show for real ?.. It is tv show, not real life!! Faberge jewellery in a original box for $ US 2000 ? We better start to get our references in the real world ! Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892/30 "2011-10-11T09:08:34Z")
> [@sh1bu1](#): > > The times that I have been to pawn shops the stuff they sell is way overpriced, to the point that it doesn’t even seem worth bargaining. Are they really going to negotiate 50% off their prices, or are they just waiting for idiots to come in the store? I managed to negotiate a watch tagged at $120 down to $15 in a pawn shop in Durham, NC a few years back without even trying, so… sometimes. I’ll stop this part of the hi-jack right here. There are, however, at least 3 or 4 different pawn shop business models. Most of them do NOT work like the ones that get TV shows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-faberge-spider-brooch/552892.md?page=1)