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Among the most well known diamonds is the Hope.
This 45.52 carat steel blue diamond is currently on
display at the Smithsonian Institute.
The legends of the ill-fortune and curse bestowed on
the possessor of the Hope Diamond are many.
This diamond was donated to the Smithsonian in 1958.
The Hope was originally a rather flat, blocky 110-carat
rough.
The Koh-I-Noor (
Mountain
of
Light
) is now among
the British Crown Jewels.
This diamond weighs 105.60 carats.
First mentioned in 1304, it is believed to have been
once set in Shah Jehan‘s famous peacock throne as one of
the peacocks eyes. The
Agra
is graded as a naturally colored Fancy Light Pink and weighs
32.34 carats. It was sold for about 6.9 million in 1990.
Since this sale, it has been modified to a cushion
shape weighing about 28.15 carats.
The Dresden Green stands out among the natural colored
diamonds. It is the largest green diamond in the world
weighing 40.70 carats. This diamond is historic, large and
has a natural green color with a slight blue overtone.
These aspects make it virtually priceless.
The Transvaal Blue is pear cut.
This blue diamond weighs 25 carats. It was found in
the Premier Diamond Mine in
Transvaal
,
South Africa
. The Great
Chrysanthemum was discovered in the summer of 1963, in a
South African diamond field.
This 198.28-carat fancy brown diamond appeared to be
a light honey color in its rough state.
However, after cutting, it proved to be a rich golden
brown, with overtones of sienna and burnt orange.
The Conde Pink is a pear shaped and weighs 9.01-carats.
This pink diamond was once owned by Louis XIII. The
Tiffany Yellow diamond a beautiful canary-yellow octahedron
weighing 287.42 in the rough (metric) carats discovered in
either 1877 or 1878 in
South Africa
. The gem after
cutting boasts the extraordinary weight of 128.54 carats.
And until recently, was the largest golden-yellow in the
world.
The Taylor-Burton Diamond is a pear-shaped 69.42 carat
diamond. Cartier
of
New York
purchased this diamond at an auction in 1969 and christened
it "Cartier." The next day Richard Burton bought
the diamond for Elizabeth Taylor. He renamed it the
"Taylor-Burton”.
In 1978,
Elizabeth
Taylor
put the diamond up for sale.
Prospective buyers had to pay $2,500 each to view the
diamond to cover the costs of showing it.
Finally, in June of 1979, the diamond was sold for
nearly $3 million dollars.
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