The diamond Hope:
With a weight of 44,52ct, Hope is the biggest blue diamond in the World. It is visible in the USA, in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. It is the work of art the most visited to the world after the Mona Lisa to the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
It is one of the most famous diamonds because of his route and because of its legend.
Its characteristics are:
- Purity VS1
- Color Natural fancy deep grayish blue;
- Size: form antique pillow with a faceted rondiste and additional facets known the detached house;
- Size: 25.60x21.78x12.00mm It was offered to the museum by the jeweler Harry Winston in 1958
The diamond Hope results from a more important diamond, from an initial weight of 115,16 carats, which had been bought in France by king Louis XIV: the blue diamond of the Crown of France. This diamond was stolen in 1792 and reappeared cut again in England in 1802. It went round the world and many more owners before returning in France, where the House Cartier buys him and goes up it in necklace decorated with diamond (current state). The McLean (American) family then bought it before Harry Winston does not acquire it to them. He made it of what in Smithsonian Institute, museum of Washington in 1958, when it is there since. The legend wants it to be cursed because most of its owners died violently, legend elaborated further to the shooting of the movie "The mystery of the diamond Hope".
It is that since a few years which we were able to establish that the Blue of France is in fact the Hope.
This diamond would come initially from the mine of Golconda, to Kollur, in India, discovered in the 1610s. It is what say the papers, without we can prove them.
To read more, see the site of Smithsonian Institute (in English) - > http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/hope.htm
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