A. Costly Diamond Necklace.
Thk costliest necklace ever owned in America was worn by the late Mrs Mary Jane Morgan. She had i real passion for diamonds, and wore them in hairpins, brooches, bracelet?, and rings as well, bub her special pel was a necklace, a rivieYe, of diamonds, which cost her originally perhaps £7,000, and to which she had made various additions, until its total value was £50,000. One day she astonished a clerk at) Tiffany's by buying a diamond for £12,000 and ordering it to be set in her riviere ,as the centre stone. Diamonds that once glistened in her broochs, hairpins, or bracelets wero transferred to this necklace, and diamonds that no longer pleased her in the necklace wore reset in the brooches* haii pins, or bracelets. To her it was a perpetual ploasure to see the magnificent necklace increasing its magnificence. When sho died the largest of the stones were sold singly ; but the necklace without them was so valuable that Messrs Tiffany bought it) for £15,000. Soon afterwards they broke it up, and for many months it has ceased to exist. — « ' Harper's Weekly. "
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 4
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188A. Costly Diamond Necklace. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 4
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