ROYAL JEWELS IN PAWN.
SULTAN'S FRENCH UNCLE. BY TELEGRAPH —PEBSS ASSOCIATION—COPTT-lOHT. Paris, December 17. •. Tho State Pawribroking Administration in Paris has advanced Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Morocco, a million and. a quarter francs on his jewols. A million and a quarter francs is equal to about .£50,000. When the Sultan first sent his jewels to Paris, lie expected to bo ablo to raise on them £320,000 to ,£MIO,OOO. But His Majesty received a sovero shock. He had been calculating on the price he paid for them; but after a careful valuation by proficient experts, he was told that the sum obtainable would be more like .£30,000. "His Majesty now realises," comments "The Times," "the kind of business carried l on by people who acted as his agonts for the purchase of jewellory, etc., aud the profits they made."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 73, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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