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Show Fine Drop Pearl I Sells for Thousands Titled Personages Attend an Auction Sale of Gems Owned by a Marquis. LONDON, May 5. Many titled personages per-sonages hnve attended the auction sale of a casket of Jewels, 122 in number. The gems were announced as the property of a nobleman, but It was an open secret se-cret that they were put up for sale by the Marquis of Anglesy. The sum of $119,940 was realized, the highest Individual price being 5-0,000, This was for a line drop pearl. Other articles sold from $2000 -to 518,500, the latter price being recorded for a drop-shaped drop-shaped pearl weighing 105', grains. |