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Ch. 13: Value & Commerce of Pearls

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	Above four grains they sold by the piece, and below, by the ounce. Baroque pearls sold for 300 to 1000 francs per ounce. Seed-pearls, if quite round, were worth about 120 francs per ounce. Emanuel² gave the following table of prices for the pearl, reduced to United States currency :



	The following values appear in the "Encyclopedia Hispano-Ameri-cana," Barcelona, 1894, Vol. XV, p. 180 (Louis Dieulafait) :

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