When was the Ceylon Pearl Necklace sold ?
The Ceylon Pearl Necklace is now part of the private collection of Mrs. Meera Gandhi The Ceylon Pearl Necklace now belongs to the private collection of Mrs. Meera Gandhi, an Indian American, a socialite, philanthropist, dedicated humanitarian worker and community leader, based in New York, and the wife of investment banker Vikram Gandhi. It is not known how Mrs. Gandhi came to acquire the necklace, but in all probability it must have been purchased at an auction conducted by one of the auction houses like Sotheby’s or Christie’s. This necessarily means that the necklace had left the Nizam of Hyderabad’s collection, either before or at the time of abdication of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Usman Ali Khan Siddiqui, in 1948. Soon after his forceful abdication, Mir Usman Ali Khan, got his entire collection of jewelry inventoried. He then divided the jewelry into two lots, and created two separate trusts. The jewelry were then kept in the vaults of the Flora Fountain Branch of the Hong
