Most Valuable Pearl Necklace

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Most valuable pearl necklace.

A valentine s day gift to her by her two time husband richard burton the necklace fetched a staggering 11 8 million at christie s in new york tuesday. 8 the dodge pearl necklace via cartier last sold 1 1 million in 2018. Don t know if la peregrina is the world s most expensive pearl necklace because of 50 6 carat pearl or because it was owned by the iconic elizabeth taylor. In this topten article we introduce you the world s most expensive pearls ever.

Marie antoinette barbara hutton pearl stand necklace. The most valuable pearls occur spontaneously in the wild but they are extremely rare. The 9 million price tag while not the absolute highest price fetched for any pearl necklace ever that distinction goes to la peregrina 1 on our list it is perhaps the 2nd or 3rd most expensive pearl necklace in the world. Cartier had been assembling the natural pearl necklace over a number of years.

But natural pearls like this are extremely rare and are primarily for collectors. During the 1910 s and 1920 s pearl necklaces commanded the same prices as the most expensive rembrandts and similar works by old masters the two strands of fifty five and seventy three pearls were valued at one million dollars. Whether wild or cultured gem quality pearls are almost always nacreous and iridescent as is the interior of the shell that produces them.