FORTUNES IN PEARLS,
Jfor £9400, or at the rate of £pQ a pearji a magnificent. tbree.-row necklace of 156 pearls of fine orient was sold at Messrs. Christie's rooms on 13th July. Though a high price, this has been many times exceeded during the past ten years (says a writer in 1 the Uaijy Mail), two necklaces , alope having spld for over £22,000 each. geyep years ago, at the famous sale of, the Pudley jewels, a neckljipe of f«fty-§9YfiP round pearls made j A sjngle pear-shaped pearl wenj, "for J8J3,500; a rope pf ggg. pearls sofas, for i 616,700; apd a pearl and brilliant tiara realised £.}0,3D0 ; four lot* thus p?pdupiijg th« remarkable aggregate of Jp tbe f pllpwing year, .boweyer, a.l} rejjprds were b|%t.e n wfißft thfl fjjjpoiis necklacp o|.-287 pearls, tjhe property pf MM y C nP n^ epr^Leiuiox, 6 pfd for £22,§QQ. Smce 'thep we bftve bad the Anglesey jewe} gale in l°o4, when fiv? SiPgls pearls made over
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 63, 11 September 1909, Page 10
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