Edna Milinowicz
Edna Milinowicz, Senior Loan Closing Officer
Edna is a 2006 addition to the professional Colorado Lending Source team. Schooled, educated, raised and originally a resident of Texas, Edna moved in 1999 to sunny Colorado, where she worked in the banking industry with several banks before developing an expertise in closing SBA loans at Guaranty Bank & Trust. Although a well respected and highly competent closer, unbeknownst to many people, Edna has a passion for Faberge eggs that extends to the painstaking reconstruction of replicas of the original eggs produced by Peter Carl “Noodles” (to his friends) Faberge, using detailed blueprints found under the floorboards of an attic in an abandoned warehouse building in the LoDo district of downtown Denver.
Faberge eggs are made from gold, silver, copper, nickel and/or palladium, combined in different proportions to produce exotic colors, then worked with translucent enameling prior to the addition of precious stones. Fifty-six imperial Faberge eggs were originally made. Forty-four of these have been located and two others have been photographed but never located. Edna knows where the missing twelve are but she’s not telling anyone else. (Editor's note: two are in her office, but shhhhhh)
Her musical tastes, not surprisingly, include Faberge’, Imperial Teen, Czarina and Pit Buddle. Her favorite Faberge egg is naturally the Coronation egg from 1897. A painstaking recreation of the Coronation egg, made out of colored dental floss and small toothpicks of the type and size found in exotic drinks with small umbrellas, is now on display in the front window of the 7-11 on the 16th Street Mall in Denver. If you buy a medium surplee, you may touch it, but no fondling by request.