25.11.2010
The Smithsonian Institution invited the public to make history by voting on one of three new setting designs for the legendary Hope Diamond. To mark the occasion, Harry Winston Inc., the famed jewelry company whose owner and namesake donated the diamond to the Smithsonian, has designed three contemporary settings, to look at these 3 designs, look at my [...]
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04.02.2010
The famed Hope Diamond and the Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond, were not cut from the same stone, according to a group of scientists led by Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. The two diamonds were examined under a variety of microscopes and lights at the Smithsonian to try to settle some centuries-old [...]
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