INDIAN PRINCE’S JEWELS.
SELLING IN LONDON
A MILLION’S WORTH OF GEMS
Hatton Garden is selling the jewels of an Eastern potentate—a man whose identity is being kept a close secret. Gems worth £200,000 have already arrived in London, and most of the cargo of precious stones has been disposed of by Hatton Garden’s dealers, acting on behalf of the ruler’s London agents, who have been commissioned to sell the jewels. Another £500,U00 worth of jewels is expected to reach London for disposal in the diamond market within the next few months. The total consignment of gems from the East which have been earmarked for sale is valued at more than a million sterling. One of the jewels which came from the East in the consignment- was , a great turban diamond, weighing more than 70 carats.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 172, 22 June 1926, Page 7
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135INDIAN PRINCE’S JEWELS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 172, 22 June 1926, Page 7
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