According to the auctioneers, the egg, known as Cuckoo Cuckoo, was uncovered by Clive Pinder, from Dorset, at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset in 1983.<\/p>\n
He sold the egg at auction for \u00a36,500 in 2017, before the next buyer put it up for sale with the auction house.<\/p>\n
The result set a new auction house record for Batemans and a new world auction record for any Cadbury’s Conundrum egg, the auctioneers said.<\/p>\n
Batemans previously sold the secret thirteenth 22-carat gold egg twice, first in July 2017 for a hammer price of \u00a317,200 and again in February 2021 for \u00a331,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The Conundrum eggs are a fascinating piece of British cultural history,” Bateman said.<\/p>\n He described the advertising campaign as “one of the most memorable” of his time, and said the hunt captured “the imagination of millions”.<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the auctioneers, the egg, known as Cuckoo Cuckoo, was uncovered by Clive Pinder, from Dorset, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}