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Ch.16: Famous Pearls

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remark :—" I would have £6,000 to buy me jewels, and ;£4,000 to buy me a Pearl chain or necklace."
In the time of James I. (1617), the chamberlain consoles himself with the reflection, that " the choice of Pearls and other rare jewels is not touched, among which there is a carquenet of round and long Pearls, rated at £40,000, in the judgment of Lord Digby and others, the fairest that are to be found in Christendom."
The following is a valuation of the Pearls in the Crown Treasury of France (1791).
At the present day these Pearls, which doubt­less were of the purest and finest description, would be worth a far larger sum than the amounts named.
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