A Young Lord’s Jewels.
It is a highly interesting glimpse of the life and habits of the gilded youth of the present day which the public have derived from the reports of the theft of the Marquis of Anglesey’s jewels. Here is a young gentleman of twenty-six who travels about the c untiy with a collection of jewellery worth from ,£40,000 tu ,£50,000. “They were just things I wire myself,” he told an interviewer. The things the Marquis wore included no fewer than forty rings, forty scarfpins (one alone was worth /'L0,000) l thirty charms, twenty-one pairs of sleeve links, twelve sets of fancy vest buttons and other things too numerous to mention, all set with precious stones. After this what man will dave to s'coff at woman’s love of jewellery? Equally illuminating is the account of the Marquis’s retinue. It seems that he takes with him on his travels a secretary, a first and second valet and a barber. In view of this unfortunate robbery the Marquis will doubtless now a detective or two to his staff,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 271, 25 November 1901, Page 1
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178A Young Lord’s Jewels. Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 271, 25 November 1901, Page 1
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