Weird "hope"

There is a metaphysical view that those precious jewels and diamonds are always accompanied by death and conspiracy because of their high prices, and they are ominous things covered with blood. After the Frenchman Tavimir brought a blue giant diamond found in southern India back to France, unknown things followed, and the owners who owned it died strangely one after another. Their strange and tortuous experiences were enough to write a novel.

After the vicissitudes of the French Revolution, this blue diamond was stolen from the French national treasury on 1792. After re-cutting, it reappeared in the London jewelry market in 1830, and floated to the United States in191year, and was collected by markland, the head of Washington post. Mrs Macland was told that "hope" is a diamond that only brings bad luck, but Mrs Macland didn't think so. She often wears this diamond to show her wealth. In the second year when Blue Diamond entered the McLean family, their son was killed in a car accident, Mr. McLean and his daughter died one after another, and Mrs. Macland died alone on 1947. 1958, Winston, an American jeweler, bought all the jewelry legacy of Mrs. Macland and became the new owner of the blue diamond "Hope". A miracle happened. The Winston family is not only safe, but also the jewelry business has become exceptionally good. Later, it developed into a world-famous diamond brand "Harry Winston". Later, Mr Winston donated the Hope diamond to the country, and it is now at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, USA. Since then, "Hope" diamonds have stopped working for hundreds of years.

Wittelsbach, who has been sleeping for 300 years.

In 2009, Laurence Graff, a billionaire diamond dealer known as the "King of Diamonds", bought a precious blue diamond with a history of 300 years of European royalty for a record price of $24.3 million. This rare blue diamond in the market is the famous17th century "witters Bach" diamond, weighing 35.56 carats, which is comparable to the famous diamond "Hope" in color and clarity.

Famous diamonds have a rule, that is, they change hands many times. Few people can hold it all the time. 1664, when King Philip VI of Spain married the Austrian emperor Leopold I, he married his daughter Margarita Teresa to the daughter of Nianfang 15, 1720, and this diamond was passed on to Maria Amalia, the Austrian princess who married the Bavarian prince Charles Albert. Wittelsbach is the surname of Prince Charles Albert of Bavaria. 193 1 When the country became the United Kingdom, witters Bach diamonds were auctioned together with other jewels in the Bavarian crown.

The mysterious "Dresden"

Around 1743, Augusta bought a pear-shaped natural green diamond weighing 4 1 carat for 60,000 tilas (about 9,000 pounds). This diamond is pure and flawless. It is said that it is produced in Golconda, India, the origin of the famous diamond. 65438+came to Europe in the 1920s,/kloc-wandered in the royal family of the German court in the 8th century. At that time, the imperial concubine of Dresden, Germany, loved this green diamond to the extreme, and even arranged several green exhibition halls in the palace just to show it. This huge green diamond was named "Deleuze Green Diamond" because it was hidden in the treasure house of Deleuze, Germany. After World War II, Dresden Green Diamond was transported to Moscow. After a period of wandering life, it was returned on 1958. "Dresden" green diamond is the representative of green diamond, which is usually regarded as the companion flower of "Hope" diamond, and its value is difficult to measure. Although the weight of 4 1 carat is not the largest diamond, it has become the largest green diamond in the world because of its extremely rare green color.

Excerpt from Anne's fashion gem class

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