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When Molly Brown filed her insurance claim for what she had lost on the Titanic she listed a $20,000 necklace.

I wondered if anyone knows anything more about the necklace or her jewels in general.

I found this picture of her repeatedly but nothing more with any substantial jewellery:

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/just-who-was-the-unsinkable-molly-brown-86719072/113979.html

Does anyone know anything about any other jewels that got lost?

At the beginning the women who were first away had to be coerced into life boats as in a lot of cases virtually know one amongst the passengers knew the ship was actually going to sink. They thought the captain was being overly cautious. So I would make the assumption that many left their jewels behind thinking them safer on the ship than in a lifeboat that would be returning to the ship shortly.

Also whilst only a few women from first class drowned they would not have had their jewels get away in a life boat I'd assume.

I know some pieces were found when they briefly collected some artefacts but they were all very small pieces though pearls would have dissolved by then.