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Now reduced to three strands comprised of 224 pearls and two Cartier diamond clasps, the necklace is estimated at $500,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000- $700,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],a hefty sum,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to be sure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but far less than Horace originally paid. The reason for the depreciation has less to do with the reduction in strands than with changing fashion and an evolving jewelry marketplace.

In 1920, before the advent of cultured pearls, they were exceedingly rare and valuable, much more so than [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Nowadays pearls have become more commonplace while [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] are more precious,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though a true connoisseur recognizes the value of the Dodge necklace,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which is made of all natural pearls.
The original Cartier invoice states that the "five row pearl necklace,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], consisting of 389 pearls weighing 4305 grains" was accompanied by an "enamel clasp representing Catherine, Empress of Russia" and "two diamond alternate clasps." Several newspaper accounts from the '20s suggested that the pearls did indeed once belong to Catherine; Anna Thomson Dodge's heirs maintain that Horace bought the pearls from Cartier on that basis.
A mysterious pearl necklace that may have once belonged to Catherine the Great,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Empress of Russia, will be auctioned off by Bonhams in New York in December. Automotive billionaire Horace Elgin Dodge purchased the necklace from Cartier in Paris in 1920 for his wife Anna Thomson Dodge at the astonishing price of $825,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 - about $8 million in today's dollars.