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Rare in gem-quality over several carats (1 carat = 200 mg), tsavorite has been found in larger sizes. In late 2006, a 925-carat (185.0 g) crystal was discovered. It yielded an oval mixed-cut 325 carat (65 g) stone, one of the largest, if not the largest, faceted tsavorites in the world.
He also practiced on a 31.57 carat tsavorite, working nine to eleven hours a day for five days on the smaller stone. The actual cutting of the larger tsavorite took about a month. The entire process was thoroughly documented from beginning to end. The finished stone is a square cushion cut with 177 facets, and the final weight is 116.76 carats ...
The Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure is a collection of valuable objects including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments, diamonds and other precious stones. It was discovered in some of the subterranean vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala, when five of its six (or possibly eight) vaults were opened on 27 June 2011.
List of National Treasures of India Name Image Notes Nandalal Bose: Nicholas Roerich [3] Amrita Sher-Gil: Sailoz Mookherjea: Jamini Roy [4] Abanindranath Tagore: Gaganendranath Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore: Raja Ravi Varma
National Museum of Natural History [3] DeLong Star Ruby: Burma: 1930 100.32 carats (20.064 g) American Museum of Natural History [4] Garrard's Red Ruby Burma: 40.63 carats (8.126 g) [5] Sunrise Ruby: 25.59 carats (5.118 g) [6] Carmen Lúcia Ruby: Burma: 1930s 23.1 carats (4.62 g) National Museum of Natural History [7] Elizabeth Taylor Ruby
In the period between 2000 and 2007, the Rupee stopped declining and stabilised ranging between 1$ = ₹44– ₹48. In late 2007, the Indian Rupee reached a record high of 39 Indian national rupee per United States dollars, on account of sustained foreign investment flows into the country.
Shortly after the diamond came into the possession of the East India Company, Governor-General Lord Dalhousie tasked 22-year old civil servant Theo Metcalfe with compiling the history of the diamond prior to 1849. Metcalfe himself said that he was unable to do a good job, but what he wrote has become the most popular and circulated record of ...
Star of India: Sri Lanka 563.4 carats (112.68 g) Star Blue-gray American Museum of Natural History, New York [5] Queen Marie of Romania: Sri Lanka 478.68 carats (95.736 g) Cushion Blue Anonymous owner [6] Logan Sapphire: Sri Lanka 422.99 carats (84.598 g) Cushion Blue National Museum of Natural History, Washington [7] Star of Asia: Burma