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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19249, 13 August 1924, Page 10

A singular story was told last month of tho famous blue diamond which belonged to tho Russian Imperial Family and which has found its way into tho municipal pawn shop at Nice. Weighing 43 carals. tho diamond has had its vicissitudes since it adorned the forehead of a Buddhist statue in a Hindu Temple, and there is a sugge®tion that it will again change hands, and go the way of many rare and expensive things 'and reach America, Its latest possessor is Mademoiselle Thuillier, known ns “Primrose,’' who, according to the details published, lived for some time at the Russian Court ami received the jewel from the Czar himself. When the revolution broke out Mademoiselle Thuillier came to Nice. Financial troubles overtook her. and she was compelled to take the diamond to tho pawnshop. It is not every day that ■ jewel with the history of the blue diamond is offered as security for a loan, and is was a. question as to how much should be lent upon it. It seems that by its regulations the pawnshop could not. lend more than 200.000 francs, This sum was not enough to satisfy the lady’s creditors, and according to tho story they put in claims for 2,000,000 francs when three months ago it was a question of redeeming the jewel. An American is reported to have come forward and offered 1,000.000 dollars for it. Every bullet has its billet. Every bird its nest; Every day has much to fill it, Every night its rest; Every ill its groat specific Wise and good and pure; For coughs and cold, the beatific Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt.