Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . pearl fisheries that have created somuch excitement in different parts of the Unit-ed States, for the last few years, there has been,as the Yankee expresses it, more talk than ci-der. Though some fine gems have been found,their reputation has gone abroad more than treb-led. The exact localities of finding speciallyfine pearls has been jealously concealed by thefinders. The Queen Pearl, the largest of all,was found at the Notch Brook, near Patterson,New Jersey. This pearl is now the propertyof the Empress Eugenie, who purchased it
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . pearl fisheries that have created somuch excitement in different parts of the Unit-ed States, for the last few years, there has been,as the Yankee expresses it, more talk than ci-der. Though some fine gems have been found,their reputation has gone abroad more than treb-led. The exact localities of finding speciallyfine pearls has been jealously concealed by thefinders. The Queen Pearl, the largest of all,was found at the Notch Brook, near Patterson,New Jersey. This pearl is now the propertyof the Empress Eugenie, who purchased it for12,500 francs ($2500). It was found in 1857,and brought to Messrs. Tiffany and Co., whobought it and sent it to Europe. The otherspecial localities from which they have heerh ob-tained are the streams in the neighborhood ofMilford, Connecticut, and the Little jMiami Riv-er, Ohio, each of which have furnished severalfine pearls. One of the most singular circumstances con-nected with the New Jersey pearl fever hasbeen the discovery of several shells, showing.
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