HISTORIC CROWN
TO BE BROKEN UP. NEW YORK, June 9. A gold crown, studded with 453 emeralds and weighing 1,500 carats, made in Colombia, South America, 300 years ago in honour of the Virgin Mary, was on display here to-day. A Chicago syndicate of dealers acquired it on Saturday after negotiating for its possession for 22 years. It is a beautiful object with a ro-
mantic history, but its new owners intend to break it up and sell the emeralds for their market value, which they estimate at £900.000.
The citizens of Popayan, Colombia, had the crown made towards the end of the 16th century as a thajik-offcring for their escape from the plague. They instructed the goldsmiths that it must exceed in beauty grandeur and value the crown of any reigning monarch so that it might be a becoming gift for the “Queen of Heaven.’*
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1936, Page 4
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