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November 15th, 2008 | Posted in Jewelry News | No Comments
The name La Pelegrina, appears to have been used to refer to at least two different natural pearls of different shapes, sizes, origin and history. One pearl believed to be of South American origin with a history of over 350 years, having passed through royal and aristocratic families of Spain, France, possibly India, and finally Russia, is a pear-shaped pearl with a weight of 133.16 grains.
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November 15th, 2008 | Posted in Jewelry News | No Comments
November 15th, 2008 | Posted in Jewelry News | No Comments
The Arco Valley Pearl was beleived to have been owned by the mighty Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan who ruled China in the 13th century, and was given by a gift by him to Marco Polo in recognition of his services to his empire
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November 15th, 2008 | Posted in Jewelry News | No Comments
Extensive resource on the famous pearls of the World
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This pearl was discovered off the coast of the island of Santa Magirita, the gulf of panama in the mid 16th Century and entered the Spanish Crown Jewels.Prince Philip II gave the pearl as a present to Queen Mary I of England in anticipation of his marriage to the Queen
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The Caravel pendent which is made of gold and emeralds was designed and made in the 1580s or 1590s in Spain and laterentered the crown jewels of the Romanov Emperors, probably during the period of Peter I the great or Catherine the Great
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The pearl of Allah aka the pearl of Lao Tzu was discovered off the coast of palawan in Philippines in 1934and was gifted to Wilburn Cobb in 1939 by the Chief of the Dayak tribe for saving the life of his son after he contracted malaria.
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November 15th, 2008 | Posted in Jewelry News | No Comments
The engraved emerald whose provenance is from the classic Mogul period from 1556 to 1707,was set into a pendant of a diamond necklace by a jewelry firm in Paris at the turn of the 20th Century
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Stephanie de Beauharnais, the Grand Duchess of Baden, was a niece to Alexandre Vicomte de Beauharnais, the first husband of Empress Josephine de Beauharnais, who was killed during the upheavals of the French revolution. On March 9, 1796, when Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais,
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October 8th, 2008 | Posted in Jewelry News | No Comments
