Sale 1362
Geneva
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14 May 2008
Price realised
CHF 43,000
Estimate
A DELICATE BELLE EPOQUE NATURAL PEARL AND DIAMOND CHOKER In the Garland Style, set with a pierced diamond plaque, the articulated centre suspending a circular-cut diamond within a diamond foliate crown, to the eleven-row natural pearl necklace measuring from 4.4 to 3.4 mm, with diamond bar spacers, circa 1910, 33.5 cm inner circumference, in a fitted Hancocks & Co green leather case Accompanied by report no. 973337 dated 26 June 2003 from the London Precious Laboratory stating that the 810 pearls are natural pearls
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