8. Famed jeweler Jacques Cartier bought the land for the Cartier New York flagship store on 5th Avenue for $100 and a pearl necklace. In 1917, New York millionaire Morton F. Plant... (more)

sold his palatial, s8. <a href="https://www.thereal.su/van-cleef-arpels-jewelry/van-cleef-arpels-rings.html"><strong>Knockoff Van Cleef Clover Ring</strong></a>Famed jeweler Jacques Cartier bought the land for the Cartier New York flagship store on 5th Avenue for $100 and a pearl necklace. In 1917, New York millionaire Morton F. Plant sold his palatial, six-story 5th Avenue building to Cartier for $100 and a pearl necklace his young bride had her eye on. The necklace was worth an estimated $1 million (roughly $22 million today) but, <a href="https://www.thereal.su/cartier-jewelry/cartier-necklaces.html"><strong>Imitation Trinity de Cartier Necklace</strong></a>unfortunately for Plant, this was just before cultured pearls started flooding the market, wildly devaluing his precious necklace. When the pearl necklace sold at the time of Mrs. Plant’s death in 1957, it fetched a <a href="https://www.thereal.su/cartie