CROWN JEWELLERS
Costly Display of Gems (Iteuler. —Special to ‘'The Dominion.’) Even the most costly display now in London is free. You can walk down Albermarle Street and turn in at No. 24 and see £3.000.000 worth of jewels neatly arranged in rows. They look too big to be true; diamonds as large as eggs and rubies like lumps of sugar. The show includes the world's largest sapphire and the world's finest ruby and blue diamond. Tile sapphire might be purchased if you had the money—about £lO.OOO. The blue diamond would cost you £30.000. There is a pearl necklace wort!) £130.000, but that is not for sale. It was lent by a private owner. And all this display is guarded by — one or two detectives dressed to look like shop assistants. Lor London is not Chicago. This exhibition is being given by Messrs. Garrard and Company, the Crown jewellers. It is this firm which fetches the crowd from the Tower of London whenever the King has occasion to wear it. am! polishes the jewels and brushes the ermine. The Crown jeweller carries the precious emblem from the Tower in a closed limousine. It used to travel in a hansom cab.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 96, 17 January 1933, Page 3
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200CROWN JEWELLERS Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 96, 17 January 1933, Page 3
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