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Ch.16: Famous Pearls

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295                                   Pearls.
in 1878, Messrs. Hunt and Rosiceli purchased both Pearls,—the one from Prince Dhuleep Singh, and the other from the merchant, — and shortly after­wards sold them back as a pair to the above-mentioned merchant for £4,800, which was even then much below their value, and to-day they would be worth £10,000. They were almost immediately re-sold to Messrs. Bapst, jewellers, of Paris, and by them exhibited suspended on wires in their case in the great Paris exhibition, 1878. There they attracted universal attention and were pronounced by connoisseurs to be the most extraordinary pair of Pearls ever seen in Europe. They were sold from the Exhibition to a private individual for a very large sum.
Other Famous Pearls.
Among the list of monies received by the Earl of Craven as executor to Prince Rupert, we find mention of Mrs. Ellen Gwynne, £4,520 for the great Pearl necklace.
In a curious and characteristic letter of Lady Compton to her husband, apparently written at the end of the sixteenth century, we find among other items which she terms "reasonable," the following
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