Hope Diamond
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The Hope Diamond is a 45.52-carat blue diamond that has been famed for its great size and blue-violet color since the 17th century. It was extracted in the 17th century from the Kollur Mine in Andhra
The Hope Diamond in 1974
The Hope Diamond in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., 2014.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier's original sketch of the Tavernier Blue
Harry Winston
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Harry Winston was an American jeweler. He donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958 after owning it for a decade. He also traded the Portuguese Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1963
Hope Diamond
…1839 gem catalogue from the Hope banking family, from whom the diamond's name derives. The Hope Diamond's last private owner was the American jeweler Harry Winston, who bought it in 1949 from the estate of the mining heiress and socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean. After exhibiting the diamond on tour for several years…
Harry Winston
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