IS PEARL MAKING DOOMED?
A very profitable, if strange, industry is to disappear froi Paris, following the condemnation of its principals. Pearls of inferior quality, were, after being subjected to a secret process made to appear WortßTmany times their actual value. Thus a certain merchant, having purchased a mediocre specimen for 88,766 francs, took it to the pearl faker, the result being that it was eventually sold for 260,00 r francs. The camouflage, however, was not lasting, and this led to the conviction of the above mentioned two on the oharge of “fraudulent practices on sold goods.” The Paris pearl market is much agitated, and so are recent purchasers hf such gems.
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Taihape Daily Times, 16 September 1918, Page 6
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112IS PEARL MAKING DOOMED? Taihape Daily Times, 16 September 1918, Page 6
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