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The original Cartier invoice states that the "five row pearl necklace,miu miu handbags spring 2011, consisting of 389 pearls weighing 4305 grains" was accompanied by an "enamel clasp
representing Catherine,miu miu handbags spring 2011,Fivefingers Sprint Shoes,miu miu bags sale, Empress of Russia" and "two diamond alternate clasps." Several newspaper accounts from the '20s suggested that the pearls did indeed
once belong to Catherine; Anna Thomson Dodge's heirs maintain that Horace bought the pearls from Cartier on that basis.
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Automotive billionaire Horace Elgin Dodge purchased the necklace from Cartier in Paris in 1920 for his wife Anna Thomson Dodge at the astonishing price of
$825,000 - about $8 million in today's dollars.
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sure, but far less than Horace originally paid. The reason for the depreciation has less to do with the reduction in strands than with changing fashion and
an evolving jewelry marketplace.