What were the odds of an egg cup exactly the same as the missing one surfacing in the exact same region where it was stolen? The egg cup custodian, who wanted only to be known as “local person”, divulged more over the phone: “My dad lived in Thames for quite a few years and every time I would go to visit him, he would have a few ornaments and things that he had picked up from the markets or the secondhand shops.” The egg cup was one of those gifts, which the local person estimates they received some time in the early 2010s.
The next email had no subject line at all, just the following attached images: The email? “Hi I have an egg cup like the one that you did the article on… I’ll send you a picture.” Shortly after The Spinoff published the story of Green’s missing egg cup, a thrilling email arrived. “That was the only thing I had left of my mother.” He’s been on the hunt for it ever since. “The emotions kicked in straight away and I just started crying and crying and crying,” he recalled. But in 2000, at the Thames Shopping Centre, tragedy struck: his mother’s egg cup was stolen from a plinth in the middle of his display. The cup stayed with him through every chapter of his incredible life, including his early years in an orphanage, his time working as a cook for the British Army across Asia and a six-week voyage by boat to Aotearoa.įrom this solitary egg cup a collection of thousands grew, which Green eventually started displaying to the public.
Johnny Green’s long lost Easter-themed egg cup was given to him by his mother in 1939, and became his most cherished possession ever since her death in 1941. Thanks to this nationwide Easter egg-cup-hunt, we unearthed not one, not two, but three possible matches. Community pages were set alight with comments and tags, op shops were trawled and cupboards were cleared, all in the hopes of uniting one 92-year-old man with his beloved egg cup. Last month we published the story of Johnny Green’s missing egg cup, and the team of five million quickly got to work. We took them to him to find out which, if any, was The One. A nationwide hunt has uncovered not one but three egg cups matching the description of the cherished heirloom stolen from an Auckland collector more than 20 years ago.
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