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The original Cartier invoice states that the "five row pearl necklace,latest miu miu bags, consisting of 389 pearls weighing 4305 grains" was accompanied by an "enamel clasp
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once belong to Catherine; Anna Thomson Dodge's heirs maintain that Horace bought the pearls from Cartier on that basis.
A mysterious pearl necklace that may have once belonged to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia,cheap miu miu bags uk, will be auctioned off by Bonhams in New York in December.
Automotive billionaire Horace Elgin Dodge purchased the necklace from Cartier in Paris in 1920 for his wife Anna Thomson Dodge at the astonishing price of
$825,miu miu handbags outlet,000 - about $8 million in today's dollars.
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sure, but far less than Horace originally paid. The reason for the depreciation has less to do with the reduction in strands than with changing fashion and
an evolving jewelry marketplace.