RUSSIAN CROWN JEWELS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 30

RUSSIAN CROWN JEWELS.

' TOR SALE IN AMERICA. ONE PEARL BOF*B> £500,000. .Purchasers ot any of the live million dollars; worth of Russian crown jewels, said tirbe on their way, via London, to New York, tor disposal, will buy litigation *Ith them.;" . ' . -7 -;. 7 So lti is asserted by the Russian Lawyers* Association in the United States. Grounds oh which sales, will be contested In the American courts,. according to the association's announcement, are that:—- : 7i. The jewels are stolen property. v, 2. The Soviet Government - never , acquired .'lawful title to them. 73. Some of the treasures belong legally to 30 orihore heirs of the House of Romanoff, iftw living In exile. . .■'.-■.. J|.4'. Others of the gems belong to other Russians of various ":. 1 5..50me of : . the valuables belong to churches and public,, social, "benevolent and oilier Institutions of the old regime. 7 "We .feel confident, that the conscience, ot America will hot permit anyone here to reach iut for treasure obtained by robbery tail assassination," the announcement iays. •■"One- consignment exported in America is MSd to-, contain a rope of pearls valued p.t fcoPOOOO, and an emerald that belonged to .'the Czar Ivan the Terrible, estimated to bo worth £250,000. ,':.Mr. -Rudolph Oblatt, a sy-n----eU-ut',ot .diamond firms, is, said to bav£ n'mde' a-, bid in Moscow/for the entire colUi'tlon- of unmounted emeralds held l)y the Soviet: Government : '.- . ' .'Some, of these stones are'said to. be i-f 63 carats. •'-. ' ." - , ~'-..