VALUABLE' PEARLS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 25 October 1930, Page 19

VALUABLE' PEARLS

Oti]yithosQ:;:behi,nd -the' iseenes can have:any/idea:of the enormous amount of work, worry, and: detail connected ■with 'an .'exhibition: of ..jewels,, states an English exchange. , After Ascot is over, 200 of the'most distinguished and wealthiest people in London, including most of tho members of the Corps Diplomatique, and the richest girl in the world, were, the' Specially invited guests at a: wonderful, exhibition of .pearls, the most complete of-its kind ever; held in London... The -exhibition;, was organised at the suggestion of a woman. So the "Famous.2oo" entered a door in London's most cxclusivo shopping centre, a door guarded, by an. cagle-eyod commissionaire, and visited a real-life Aladdin's cave.r The most valuable and perfect necklace of pearls iv the world was amongst the exhibits. Just a row of 42 pearls, with a solitairo diamond clasp. But what pearls! The centre one weighs 90 grains, and all tho. pearls are perfect and perfectly matched, and took nearly 20 years to collect. The price runs into six figures. Then there were black pearls—"black' pearls, by the way, are really dark grey. A black pearl solitaire, set in platinum, .to.match three vows of perfect pearls—all,black. Pink pearls, the shade of the heart of a La France rose, and milk-white pearls, set as ■ rings, bracelet, and-earrings, wero also on show. The pearls alone are valued at £4,000,000. sterling,- and there were other jewels,, too.. ';••".