At the hope diamond

hope diamond is a bright blue stone, of white diamonds surrounded and broken by a diamond necklace. This is a surprise for many if once know about diamonds as to expect this famous diamonds at a clear diamonds.

The hope diamond in the beginning was a beautiful purple 112 carat stone. It was the stone sold first by a merchant named Jean Baptiste Tavernier, later to Louis XIV. acquired by France. The diamond was then in a 67-carat stone cut with the French called blue color.

The diamond has been stolen, looted when the Crown jewels were during the French Revolution. It was subsequently found in the years 1812 and was by George IV. purchased from England. Georg IV. of England later sold the diamonds to its debt. Where the stone was not known at the time although it their way found as part of Henry Philip hope's collection. Today, the name should hope on the diamond.

The hope diamond has been a long-time legend of a curse when it was a hero in India gezupft. Regardless of the legend was true, many of which met in possession of the diamond with disaster have. The hope family during the owner of diamond went bankrupt. The stone was then sold to Cartier jewellery based in Paris. As Pierre Cartier sold it MacLean of Washington, DC later to Evalyn Walsh, her first son was at the age of nine in a car accident and her daughter committed suicide killed at the age of 25. Her husband was declared mentally ill and institutionalized until his death in 1941.

After the stone acquisition Mrs. MacLean they return the stone and managed in the chain we know today. The chain was eventually Henry Winston of Mrs. MacLean's estate acquired in 1947, which was part of the Smithsonian collection.
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