Jewelry and the Precious Stones; With a History, and Description from Models, of the Largest Individual Diamonds Known: Including, Particularly, a Consideration of the Koh-I-Noor's Claim to Notoriety
Jewelry and the Precious Stones; With a History, and Description from Models, of the Largest Individual Diamonds Known: Including, Particularly, a Consideration of the Koh-I-Noor's Claim to Notoriety
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ... instead of forty-nine carats. We have learned that M'r Henry Thomas Hope, of London, is in possession of a blue Diamond, weighing one hundred and seventyseven grains. If this were seventy-seven carats it would accord with the weight of the "Blue Diamond," which we have described. It is more probably "The English ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ... instead of forty-nine carats. We have learned that M'r Henry Thomas Hope, of London, is in possession of a blue Diamond, weighing one hundred and seventyseven grains. If this were seventy-seven carats it would accord with the weight of the "Blue Diamond," which we have described. It is more probably "The English Lottery Diamond;" for one hundred and seventyseven grains are equivalent to a little over forty-five and a half carats, which is nearly the weight we have accorded "The Lottery Diamond," and it also has been described as of a blue tinge. The Parisian correspondent of the North American says that the "Sancy" was also stolen from the Royal Oarde-Meuble during the French Revolution, and became ultimately the property of the Emperor of Russia. On page seventeen the "Sancy Diamond" was described as of square form, and "The Polar Star" as of an egg shape, flattened at the sides. These descriptions apply reversely to these two stones. We should have mentioned also on the seventeenth page, that "The English Lottery Diamond," "The Sancy," and "The Polar Star," are all cut as Brilliants. D'r Feuchtwanger says "The Nassuc Diamond" weighs three hundred and fiftyseven and a half grains, (91.95 carats, ) and that it was sold at the auction of Mess'rs Rundell & Bridges in 1837, for $36,000. He says at the same time were sold a pair of Brilliant ear-rings, weighing two hundred and twenty-three and a half grains, formerly the property of Queen Charlotte, for $55,000; a Brilliant drop, seventy-nine and a half grains, for $5,900; and an oblong Brilliant, one hundred and fifty-one and a quarter grains, for $14,000. A Diamond valued at 200,000 francs, and a diadem set...
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