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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.
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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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