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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 10

PERSIAN SHAH’S GEMS WORTH MORE THAN 34 ] MILLION AMAZING TREASURES For the first time in history a corn plete record was recently made of enormous number of valuable S eDS ; collected in the treasury of the Sbak of Persia. Hitherto no attempt X valuation had been made, but Rif* Khan ordered a committee of Frenc and Dutch jewellers to do the * ror *' The committee has valued the wnj” State jewellery at over £ 34,000, with the exception of the famous mond “Darya-i-Xoor,” or the Se*l Light, which, according to the exp® l ? is beyond estimation. The j®** consist in the most part of eme 2r J diamonds, rubies and pearls. Tn weights have been taken and soffiidea of the Persian Shah’s can be had from the fact that to are ten pounds of the finest P®**. twelve pounds of rubies and thtft pounds of emeralds. The emerald is valued at over The most valuable of all the trea bv* is the famous Peacock Throne the Mogul Emperors of Delhi, rem intact from the throne room t Dewan-i-Khas of Delhi to the palace in Teheran. It is valued at over £10,000,000. worJ The famous string of pearls by the Shah at the Durbars the palace is valued at over while the wonderful diamond i-Noor” stands almost l * nl L- orlc 0 rlc among the costly jewels of the