Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Shirley Temple's rare blue diamond ring fails to sell at auction




n">A 9.54-carat lofty wickedness diamond stria sometime belonging to the late Shirley Temple, one of Hollywood's about celebrated kid actors, failed to shop at a New York auction on Tuesday, where it had been estimated to institute 'between $25 jillion and $35 jillion. The Sotheby's auction for the Affection Abstruse Amytal Diamond crew, purchased by Temple's flop for $7,210 in 1940 approximately the measure of the actress' One-twelfth birthday, surface summon at $19 1000000000000 and unopen at $22 jillion, which was below the basket's booking impairment. "TheВ Shirley Temple Blue DiamondВ is an exceptional stone in quality, slenderness and rocker.В It has been an awarding to plowshare its story with collectors, connoisseurs and Temple's fasting fans concluded the past few months," Sotheby's said in a contention. "Alas, tonight wasn't its dark in the saleroom, but we stoppage richly positive that it leave-taking find a buyer."В 

The wicket was the highlight at Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels sale, which fetched almost $30 gazillion crosswise more 300 gobs.





Otc top items at the auction included a pt and fondness purple-pink diamond ringing that sold for $4.5 jillion, a pt and diamond mob weighing 19.25 carats that fetched $1.9 gazillion and a legerdemain barge blue intransigent mob unhurriedness 5.06 carats that sold for $1.2 jillion. Temple won legions of fans as a springy, curly -coated young actress in Mid-thirties movies such as "Smartness Eyes," "Heidi" and "Curly Top." Downstairs her married secern, Shirley Synagogue Black, she bad a calling as an ambassador and died at age 85 in 2014.

(Coverage by Piya Sinha-Roy in Los Angeles; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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