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PETER HOFFMAN
co-owner
Price $75 Million USD
Value
PRICELESS
An irreplaceable museum quality artifact with historical
and legendary significance.
According to legend, the PEARL was
cultivated in China by Lao Tzu using a small carved jade amulet with the faces
of the ancient three friends, Buddha, Confucius and himself around 600 BC. The
Pearl became a symbol of world peace by demonstrating that the three sages with
differing views can live peacefully side by side in this magnificent PEARL. For
centuries it was known as the PEARL of LAO TZU.
A famous date in world
history, the PEARL was rediscovered May 7, 1934 inside a Tridacna Clam by a Muslim tribe in the Philippines. The tribal chief renamed it the
Pearl of God or
the PEARL of ALLAH. This is documented with photos in Natural History, November
1939, the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History.
Certified as the World's Largest Pearl,
replicas of the PEARL have been on
display at major world museums.
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