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Ch. 16: Famous Pearls and Collections

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472 THE BOOK OF THE PEARL
Four brooches, each containing four large pearls, two round, two pear-shaped, and three smaller ones, weighing in all 1496 grains.
A larger brooch comprising four large pear-shaped pearls, each weighing 100 grains. In the center is the pearl called "La Régente."
Two necklaces each consisting of forty-seven pearls, with an ag­gregate weight of 698 and 1612 grains, respectively.
Two bracelets with 202 pearls, weighing 2000 grains.
Five buttons, three with nine and two with ten pearls.
A necklace of 542 pearls, weighing 6752 grains.
Another necklace of 362 pearls, weighing 5808 grains.
Two other necklaces, each containing fifty-eight pearls, the total weight being 400 and 524 grains, respectively.
SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL PEARL ORNAMENTS FORMING THE PEARL PARURE OF THE FRENCH CROWN JEWELS SOLD AT PALACE OF THE TUILERIES IN
Imperial Austrian Schatzkammer. The weights and values of the great gathering of pearls of the imperial Austrian Schatzkammer were carefully estimated by one of the authors and by his friends, and it is the first attempted inventory ever published.1
The imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire, preserved in the treasury of the imperial Burg at Vienna, and known as the crown of Charlemagne, has in front seventeen pearls weighing 424 grains, of which two weigh fifty-six grains each. The remaining fifteen pearls average 20.8 grains. The values of these pearls are as follows:
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