Africa Star diamond is made of the same natural diamond Cullinan. Cullinan:190565438+1October 2 1 was discovered in Primir mine, South Africa. It is pure and transparent, with a light blue tone, and it is the highest-grade gem diamond, weighing 3 106 carats. Up to now, it is still the largest gem diamond found in the world.
Because the original stone is too big, it needs to be broken into small pieces. After Cullinan split, three skilled craftsmen worked 14 hours a day and pondered for 8 months. A * * * is ground into 9 big diamonds and 96 small diamonds. The total weight of this 105 diamond is 1063.65 carats, accounting for 34.25% of Cullinan's original weight. The largest one is called "African Star I", which is in the shape of a water drop and weighs 530.2 carats. It has 74 facets embedded in the scepter of the king of England. The second largest is called "Africa Star II", which is square with 64 faces and weighs 3 17 carats. It is embedded in the crown of the British Empire. Now it is treasured in Buckingham Palace, England.
Second: the mountain of light
"Koh-I-" diamonds are part of British royal jewels. It originated in India and was plundered by Britain in the 1849 war. This diamond will bring good luck to the hostess and bad luck or death to any man who wears it. "Mountain of Light" diamond 1895 presented to Queen Victoria of England. This diamond is set in the crown of the Queen Mother and kept in the Tower of London.
Three: AXA Shaxiu
Excelsior is the fourth gem diamond in the world.
This gem diamond weighs 995.20 carats and is named "Noble". Until the discovery of Cullinan in 1905, its weight was the first (or second) in the world, and now it ranks fourth. "Noble and incomparable" is also a fragment of a big crystal with a flat cleavage plane on one side. Its quality is excellent, it is a colorless and transparent water purification drill, which emits weak blue fluorescence due to ultraviolet irradiation in the sun, so it is slightly light blue. 1903, the jeweler Henry split the "noble" rough stone and polished it into six pear-shaped, five oval-shaped and 1/kloc-0 smaller round diamonds, with weights ranging from 69.7 carats to less than1carat, accounting for 37.5% of the total weight of the rough stone.
Fourth: Big Mughal.
The Great Mughal is also one of the world-famous ancient diamonds. Found in Kola mining area, India, about 1630 to 1650. The original stone weighed 787.5 carats and was later processed into a rose shape.
Five: Eye of Idol
This black diamond named the Eye of Brahma is said to be the eye of Brahma, a Hindu god of creation in Pontiselle, India. Was taken away by a monk and left out in the cold.
Six: Regency
Regent diamond is a beautiful and high-quality diamond. As soon as I heard its name, I knew it was a treasure closely related to the royal family, and it had the same mysterious bad luck as "hope".
This diamond was discovered in 170 1 year by Indian slaves working in Patel diamond mine on Christina River in Gorconda. Dana bought this diamond for135,000 and named it "Regent Diamond".
Seven: orlov
"orlov" diamond is the third largest diamond in the world, weighing 189.62 carats. /kloc-At the beginning of the 0/7th century, a rough diamond weighing 309 carats was found in the diamond placer in Golconda, India. According to the will of the king of India at that time, a diamond processing expert planned to process it into a rose shape, but failed to do so, resulting in a lot of weight loss (only 189.62 carats). This wonderful diamond later became the eye of the Brahman statue in the Indian temple of Seringa.
Eight: Blue Hope
Blue Hope has the same bad luck legend as orlov.
Shortly after Louis XVI got the "Crown Blue Diamond", he and Queen Mary Anthony went to the guillotine in the storm of the French Revolution. 1792 during the great revolution, the French treasury was looted, and the whereabouts of this blue diamond were unknown for a time. During this period, the Spanish painter Goye once painted a portrait of Queen Maria Luisa of Spain, who was wearing a jewel that looked like a missing diamond. At that time, it was speculated that French royalists might get it abroad and give it to the Spanish, or the Spanish bought it from thieves.
Nine: Xianxi
Xianxi, a pear-shaped world-famous diamond weighing 55 carats, is a double rose lathe worker, originally from India. At that time, a messenger named Seigneur de Sancy bought this diamond around 1570. Later, he lent it to the French emperor Henry III and put it on his hat. Henry IV also used it as a mortgage to raise funds for armament expansion, and made Harry Shen Si a senior financial official. After being appointed as the British ambassador, it was sold to Queen Elizabeth I, then passed on to James I, Charles I, charles ii and James II, and finally sold to French King Louis XIV. Since then, Sangxi diamonds have been circulated in the French royal family until the French Revolution, when 1792 royal jewels were stolen and diamonds were lost.
Ten: Taylor Burton
Taylor Burton Diamond is one of the largest and most beautiful diamonds in the world that richard burton bought for Elizabeth from the jewelry brand Katiana in 1969. This diamond weighed 244 carats before processing and was produced in South Africa in 1966. Harry Winston, a jeweler, cut and polished it, and auctioned it at the price of100000, while Burton bought the diamond from Katia and gave it to Elizabeth at the price of16900 the next day. Part of the extra price was used as Katia's little propaganda trick-selling "Burton Katia Diamond" to "the most famous couple in the world".