Quite a Stone--This 69.42 carat diamond ring is displayed Thursday at Parke-Bernet Galleries after it was bought for $1.05 million by Robert Kenmore, chairman of the Kenton Corp., which owns Cartier's. It was speculated that the ring's next buyer would be Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, although a spokesman for Cartier's declined to say whether the firm had a customer for the gem or even to admit that the firm had bought it.
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Quite a Stone--This 69.42 carat diamond ring is displayed Thursday at Parke-Bernet Galleries after it was bought for $1.05 million by Robert Kenmore, chairman of the Kenton Corp., which owns Cartier's. It was speculated that the ring's next buyer would be Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, although a spokesman for Cartier's declined to say whether the firm had a customer for the gem or even to admit that the firm had bought it.

Associated Press · [ca. October 1969]

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