Own Marie-Antoinette’s Pearls, Now On Auction at Christie’s Auction House, London

In a plot to attempt to save Marie-Antoinette’s life back then in the middle of the French Revolution, pearls were smuggled out of France by Lady Sutherland, an English aristocrat, and have stayed in the Sutherland family ever since. These pearls were made into a stunning necklace utilising diamonds, rubies and other precious stones and the Sutherlands put it to the famous Christie’s auction house in London for sale at the guide price of $811,000 and $927,000. These historical pearls were made into a necklace in 1848 for the wedding of Lady Sutherland’s grandson and Christie’s were rather hoping that the Louvre museum in Paris just might have been interested.

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