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Super rare Cadbury's egg found in Somerset sells for record 6-figures at auction
['Alex Parnham-Cope']
Somerset County Gazette | News
A 22-carat gold Cadbury's Creme Egg prize, discovered at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, has sold for £123,500, six times its estimated price.
The "Cuckoo Cuckoo" egg was found in 1983 by Dorset man Clive Pinder, who solved clues in the Conundrum book to locate a hidden perspex casket at Cricket St Thomas, Somerset.
Forty-three years later, the egg has sold for the hefty six-figure sum at Batemans Auctioneers & Valuers’ Curated & Collectable Sale on August 1.
Hallmarked in London in 1983, the 8cm-high "Cuckoo Cuckoo" egg weighs 253.6g.
He added: "To see 'Cuckoo Cuckoo' achieve £123,500 and set a new world auction record was an incredible moment.