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Show Bronx Woman Wears 'Cheap' Brooch Which Costs $5,0C0 NEW YORK. A $5,000 brooch, worn by a Bronx housewife for two years as a cheap piece of costume jewelry, was claimed by Mrs. Serge Voronov, wife of a Russian gland specialist. Mrs. Voronov sent word from the principality of Monaco, south of France, that she would forward complete data on the pin she lost in April, 1943, while strolling near the Savoy-Plaza hotel. Mrs. Eleanor Hamilton, the housewife, house-wife, found the brooch in the summer sum-mer of 1945 in the Bronx, several miles north of the spot where Mrs. Voronov lost it. Mrs. Hamilton spotted it near a sidewalk while taking tak-ing her children to the Bronx zoo. The first jeweler to whom she took the pin offered her $10, then $20 for it. Becoming suspicious it was something more than costume jewelry, she took it to another shop where, to her consternation, it was valued at $5,000. |