Crown of the Andes Sold at Auction-The jewel-studded Crown of The Andes, which graced the Virgin of Popayan Cathedral in Colombia for three centuries, is shown at Sotheby's auction house in London today as it went on sale. The crown, weighing five and three quarter pounds and studded with 453 emeralds weighing 1,251 carats, was sold to the Amsterdam firm of Asschers for $154,000.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1963]

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