A magnificent brilliant tiara, of foliage and scrollwork design and surmounted by nineteen, lai-ge, pear-shaped stones of tlia finest quality, which was the property of the Duchess of Marlborough, was sold at Christie's for £25,000. The purchaser was S. H.. Harris, who said the tiara will be broken up. The auction room was crowded with women. The suggestion is made that the Duchess sold the ornament because tiaras are becoming old-fasliioned. The New Zealand Natives' Association Band will pi&y elections a,t OWenml Buy i to-night.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1920, Page 6
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