A COSTLY DIAMOND NECKLACE.
The costliest necklace o£ diamonds ever owned in America was worn by the late Mrs Mary Jane Morgan. She had a real passion for diamonds, and wore them in hairpins, brooches, bracelets, and rings as well, but her special pet was a necklace, a riviere, of diamonds which cost her originally perhaps £7OOO, and to which she 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 brooches, hairpins, or bracelets, were transferred to this necklace, and diamonds that no longer pleased her in the necklace were reset in the brooches, hairpins, or bracelets. To her it was a perpetual pleasure to see the magnificent necklace increasing its magnificence. When she died the the largest of the stones were sold singly; but the necklace without them was so valuable that Messrs Tiffaney bought it for £15,000. Soon afterwards they broke it up, and for many months it has ceased to exist.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1626, 27 August 1887, Page 3
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187A COSTLY DIAMOND NECKLACE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1626, 27 August 1887, Page 3
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