The Hope Diamond

Hope Diamond

• Weight: 45.52 carats
• Color: Fancy Dark Grayish-Blue
• Clarity: Unrecorded
• Cut: Antique Cushion
• Source: India

The 45.52 carat steel blue Hope Diamond was found in India back in remote times as an unpleasant gem weighing 112 carats. It first became known when Jean Batiste Tavernier, the prominent French explorer of the seventeenth century, was approached in India by a slave who had an exceptionally cryptic way about him.

It worked out that he had in his ownership a charming steel blue stone which at the outset look appeared to be a huge sapphire, however the decently accomplished Tavernier soon acknowledged it was a jewel - the biggest profound blue jewel on the planet.

The whereabouts of the stolen blue precious stone for the following twenty years remains a puzzle. At long last, in 1812, a reminder by John Francillon, a London gem dealer, dated accurately twenty years and two days after the Frenh Crown Jewels had been accounted for missing, archived the vicinity of a 44¼-carat (45.52 advanced metric carats) blue precious stone in England in the ownership of London jewel trader Daniel Eliason.

This precious stone was without a doubt cut from the French Blue, a discord backed by the way that, as indicated by French law, the statute of impediments for any law violations conferred amid wartime twenty years, of which Francillon and his customer were most likely mindful. The Francillon notice built the individual in ownership of the precious stone as its new legitimate manage

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