VALUABLE PEARLS.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18167, 4 November 1930, Page 5

VALUABLE PEARLS.

Only those behind the scenes can mve any idea of the enormous amount of yvork, worry, and detail connected with an exhibition of jewels, states an English exchange. After Ascot is over, 200 of the most distinguished and wealthiest people in London, including most of the members of the Corps Diplomatique,, and the richest girl in the world, were the specially invited guests at a wonderful exhibition of pearls, the most‘complete of its kind ever held in London. The. exhibition was organised at the suggestion of a woman. So the “Famous 200” entered a door in London’s most exclusive shopping centre, a door guarded by an eagle-eyed commissionaire, and visited a real-life Aladdin’s cave. The most valuable and perfect necklace in the world was amongst the exhibits. Just a row of 42 pearls, with a solitaire diamond clasp. But what pearls! The centre one weighs '9O grains, and all the pearls are perfect and perfectly matched, and took nearly 20 years to collect. The price runs 'into six ligures. Then, there were black pearls —-“black” pearls, by the way, are really dark grey. A black pearl solitaire, set platinum, to match three rows of perfect pearls—all black. Pink pearls, the shade of the heart of a La France rose, and milk-white pearls, set as rings, bracelet, and earrings, were also on show. The pearls alone are valued at £4,000,000 sterling, and there were other jewels, too.