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    Jewels : The Geneva Sale (Day Chic)

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    14 May 2008

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    • A DELICATE BELLE EPOQUE NATURA
    Lot 240

    A DELICATE BELLE EPOQUE NATURAL PEARL AND DIAMOND CHOKER

    Price realised

    CHF 43,000

    Estimate

    CHF 35,000 - CHF 45,000

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    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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