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The Jubilee diamond

Cristina on October 6th, 2008

The Jubilee diamond was discovered in the Jagersfontein Mine 1895. The original rough stone then found weighed 650.80 carats and had an irregular octahedron shape. A consortium of London diamond merchants bought the stone and sent it a year later in Amsterdam to be cleaved and polished by M.B. Barends and Messieurs Metz. After the [...]

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