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Coster Diamonds. Royal Coster Diamonds is a diamond polishing factory in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1840, it is the oldest in the world, and has handled a number of historical masterpieces. For example, it re-polished the Koh-i-Noor, which is mounted in the British Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the Dresden Green Diamond ...
Website. www.diamantmuseumamsterdam.nl. The Diamond Museum Amsterdam (Dutch: Diamant Museum Amsterdam) is a museum located at the Museumplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum was founded in 2007 by Ben Meier of Coster Diamonds. [1] The permanent collection consists of diamond jewelry and gives background information about diamonds.
The Royal Asscher Diamond Company (Dutch: Koninklijke Asscher Diamant Maatschappij) was founded in 1854 by the Asscher family of gemcutters. The company is responsible for cutting some of the most famous diamonds in the world including the 2nd largest diamond ever found. Its headquarters still stand at its original location Tolstraat 127 in ...
2 May 1950. (1950-05-02) (aged 69) Nationality. Dutch. Relatives. Lodewijk Asscher (great-grandson) Abraham Asscher (19 September 1880 – 2 May 1950) was a Dutch Jewish businessman from Amsterdam, a politician, and a leader of his community who attained notoriety for his role during the German occupation of the Netherlands (1940–1945).
The Koh-i-Noor is a central plot point in George MacDonald Fraser 's 1990 historical novel and satire, Flashman and the Mountain of Light, which refers to the diamond in its title. [ 87 ] Kohinoor, a 2005 Indian mystery television series, follows a search for the diamond after its supposed return to India.
For the Love of God is a sculpture by artist Damien Hirst produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead that is known as the Skull Star Diamond. [1] The skull's teeth are original, and were purchased by Hirst in ...
First, we saw Nikolaj Coster-Waldau portray an immortal detective on Fox’s New Amsterdam (not to be confused with the NBC series starring Ryan Eggold). Then, he embodied the charismatic Jaime ...
Cullinan Diamond. The Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, [2] weighing 3,106 carats (621.20 g), discovered at the Premier No.2 mine in Cullinan, South Africa, on 26 January 1905. It was named after Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the mine. In April 1905, it was put on sale in London, but despite considerable ...