Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1886 — Fine Strings of Pearls. [ARTICLE]

Fine Strings of Pearls.

The increased favor given by fashion to low-necked evening dress has encouraged the jewelers to put together some very beautiful and costly necklaces. Three strings of pearls recently shown in this city were valued at $3,200, $2,200 and $1,500, respectively, without the pretty diamond clasps which fastenad them. The pearls were graduated, and of beautiful color and shape, but as one must be a poet to love Spenser, one must be accustomed to jewels to appreciate the refined beauty of pearls, and half the women who saw the three necklaces and some rival diamonds which blazed near them in another necklace would have chosen the diamonds if not informed of their comparative cheapness. The cost of this pretty bauble was $750, and it was a pretty band of stones in a light gold setting, but it had a star pendant, with a great sapphire in the center, which added two-thirds more to its price, and was a beautiful ornament by itself. The combinations of diamonds and colored stones are also very fine this season, not only in pendants but also in rings. One of the latter, in which a turquoise as big as a hummingbird’s egg is surrounded by diamond sparks, is pretty enough to figure in one of Mrs. Spofford’s stories. — Boston Transcript.