LONDON JEWEL SALE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19472, 6 May 1925, Page 11

LONDON JEWEL SALE.

OVER .£20,000 REALISED. £1450 FOR EMERALD RING. Over £20,000 Iwas realised recently at Christie’s for jewels, those comprising the casket belonging to the late Dame Florence Emily Ferraor-Hesketh bringing over £16,000. In addition to the necklaces such personal adornments as brooches sold for large eums. One such set, with white, black, and grey pearls in a foliage of brilliants, brought .£720, and another, composed ot a largo bouton Vdaci: pearl in a brilliant border £l9O. n. third brooch, an oblong brilliant in an emerald setting, realised £6BO and the highest price of all (£24501 was given for a striking emerald and brilliant tiara, consisting of an oblong emerald surrounded by a scrollwork of brilliants. Another tiara of brilliants, capable of being formed into brooches (with the necessary gold mounts) and designed as rosebuds and leaves, reached £720. A necklace of 49 graduated pearls made £2100; one of 249 pearls, in three rows, £920; and a collet necklace of 43 brilliants, £I2OO. Among the anonymous properties was a necklace ot 45 graduated pearls, £1950, and at the end of the day a remarkable emerald of octagonal shape appeared, set in a gold ring, for which £1450 was given. the silver sold on the previous day M 11? r-rs Crichton paid £375 7s 6d at 195 s an oz, for a Commonwealth plain porringer and cover, engraved “Hehbury," with tho datomark 1658, and maker’s mark W.H., with mullet abovw and pellet below.