After the world’s most expensive blue diamond, The Wittelsbach, was sold to diamond dealer – Laurence Graff – last year for $24.3 million, Sotheby’s has another impressive blue diamond for the next auction. Despite the economic woe, apparently sales for big, rare stones are still going strong. The new diamond is a fancy vivid blue [...]
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The Cullinan II is the second largest diamond cut from the Culinan diamond, the largest rough diamond ever found. It is also called the Lesser Star of Africa and it weights 317.4 carats (63.48 g). The cutting shape of this Cullian diamond is cushion and is the forth largest polished diamond in the world. The [...]
The British crown jewels represent the regalia and vestment of kings and queens of England. There are usually worn during the coronation ceremony and other official events. The crown jewels include: crowns, scepters, orbs, swords, rings, spurs, dalmatic, armill and other several ceremonial objects. The Crowns The crowns, true symbols of royalty, are extremely valuable. [...]
The Cullinan is a rough diamond discovered in South Africa on January 26th 1905. From this large diamond was cut the Cullinan I – Star of Africa and Cullinan II, a massive cushion shaped also beautiful diamond. The Cullinan I, the Star of Africa, is cololess and has a pear-shaped cut. Weighing 530.20 carats is [...]
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1. The Golden Jubilee Diamond Weight: 545.67 carats Color: fancy yellow-brown Value: $4-$12 million 2. The Cullinan I – aka the Star of Africa Diamond Weight: 530.20 carats Color: flawless D-color (perfect white) Value: over $400 million 3. The Incomparable Diamond Weight: 407.48 carats Color: modifying color (yellow-brown) Value: $20 million 4. The Cullinan II [...]
