ACTRESS’S £200,000 JEWELS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 January 1934, Page 7

ACTRESS’S £200,000 JEWELS

SOLD *FOR £55,600

PARIS, November 17. Jewellery which Miss Jenny Dolly, the actress said liad cost -£9QO 000 was sold by auction at the Hotel Drouot this afternoon for £55,605. The sale was arranged by the Credit Mun ici pal (the J.‘ re neh equivalent of the English pawnshop), with which Miss Dolly had deposited her jewellery. , Dealers from all parts of ths world, including many from London, and members of the public crowded a large room draped with dingy red hangings. Outside the building the police had difficulty in restraining late-comers who tried to force theii

way in. , . Neither Miss Dolly nor members of fashionable Paris society attended the

sale. The people present, or most of them, were dressed in an extremely simple manner, and few had the wealthy air' that might be expected of buyers of precious stones. Among the outstanding prices realised were the following: £20,300 for Miss Dolly’s famous diamond of 51g carats, set in a patinum ring with two small diamonds (dealers expected at least £25,000 would be paid for this diamond, which is said to have cost £50,000); £7,400 for a diamond of 26* carats;

£6,590 for a necklace of three rows of pearls (which was valued some time ago at more than £50,000); £lOO for a gold and platinum handbag ornamented with diamonds and rubies.

The bidding was brisk, although offers were usually' raised by only a hundred francs (little more than £1) at a time.