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Show I PEARL MARKET OF PARIS MEETS SLUMP PARIS. Jan. 21. The pearl market of Paris which considers itself the market of the world has suffered a -.lump. A necklace of Orient pearls valued bv the experts at 1,500.00 ) francs has just been sold by public auction for only -I6C.00U francs. The slump Is ascribed to general tightness 01" money, to the fact that war profiteers have bv now got lid of their superfluous millions and are Dot buying freely as In the days just after the war and lo various Other causes, but not to the competition ,,( Japanese cultivated pearls. French dealers continue Lb smile derisively when such a suggestion Is made. |