Wonderful Jewels Sold
A -total of £28;000 was raised by a recent jewel sale at Christie's, a number of the gems being sold to help charitable institutions, states an exchange. A gold bracelet which, belonged to the Empress Josephine.realised'. £s6o and a diamond riviere of which, she gave to her daughter Hortense brought & 1500. A gold snuffbox given by the Prince Regent to. the wife of the Russian Ambassador in 1820 was sold for £205. A diamond and pearl tiara, bequeathed by the .'late 'Lady Mount Stephen to King 'Edward's Hospital fund fetched £800, and a neck- ■ lace"of 75 pearls put-up by the National Lifeboat Institution £9-10. Of the total sum emeralds from Paris realised nearly. £12,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 7
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117Wonderful Jewels Sold Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 7
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