A COSTLY DIAMOND NECKLACE.
The costliest necklace of diamonds ever owned in Ameiica was worn by the late Mrs. Mary Jane Morgan. She had a real passion for diamonds, and wore them in hairpins, brooches, bracelets, and rings as well, but her special pet was a necklace, a riviere of diamonds, which cost her originally perhaps £7,000, and to which she had made various additions, until its total walue was £50,000. One day sho astonished a clerk at Tiffany's by buying a diamond for £1 2,000 and ordering it to be set in her riviere as the centre stone. Diamonds that once glistened in her broaches, hairpins, or bracelets were transferred to this necklace, and diamonds that no longer pleased her in the necklace were reset in the broaches, hairpinß, or bracelets. To her it was a perpetual pleasure to see the magnificent necklace increasing
its magnificence. When she died the largest of the stones were sold singly, but the necklace without them was so valuable that Messrs Tiffany bought it for £15,000. Soon afterwards they bioke it up, and for many months it has ceased toexi->t. — Harper's Weekly.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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189A COSTLY DIAMOND NECKLACE. Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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