Pearl necklace makes $7.1M at Christies New York
Published April 26th, 2007
A pearl necklace that once belonged to a maharajah sold at auction in Manhattan yesterday for nearly $7.1 million, more than double the previous record for a piece of natural pearl jewelry, the auctioneers said.
The Baroda Pearls had been the property of the Maharajah Khande Rao of Baroda, a former state in western India. Christie’s said the buyer was an Asian private collector who bid by phone.
The two-strand necklace features 68 of the finest natural pearls.
