Sale 1145
Hong Kong
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4 November 1996
Price realised
HKD 40,250
Estimate
A CULTURED PEARL AND DIAMOND NECKLACE Of fourteen graduated diamond-capped pearl drops, each with an openwork navette-shaped diamond surmount, intersecting the openwork diamond-set necklace, 40 cm
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