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US$200–350 million. The Hope Diamond is a 45.52 carats (9.104 g; 0.3211 oz) diamond that has been famed for its great size since the 18th century. Extracted in the 17th century from the Kollur Mine in Guntur, India, [ 1 ][ 2 ] the Hope Diamond is a blue diamond. Its exceptional size has revealed new information about the formation of diamonds.
Harry Winston (March 1, 1896 – December 8, 1978) [1] was an American jeweler. He donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958 after owning it for a decade. [2] He also traded the Portuguese Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1963 in exchange for 3,800 carats of small diamonds. [3]
Evalyn Walsh McLean. Evalyn McLean (née Walsh; August 1, 1886 – April 26, 1947) was an American mining heiress and socialite, famous for reputedly being an owner of the 45-carat (9.0 g) Hope Diamond (which was bought in 1911 for US$ 180,000 from Pierre Cartier), as well as another famous diamond, the 94-carat (18.8 g) Star of the East.
It was discovered by Thomas F. Walsh in 1896, and is (or was) owned by the Federal Resources Corp. The mine produced about 1.5 million troy ounces of gold, and 4 million troy ounces of silver, from 1896 to 1990. [1] At 2009 prices, Camp Bird's production would be worth over US$1.5 billion. Walsh sold the property for US$5.2 million in 1902.
The Tavernier Blue was the precursor diamond to the Blue Diamond of the French Crown (aka the French Blue). Subsequently, most scholars and historians believed that it was re-cut and, after a disappearance and reemergence into the public forum, was renamed the Hope Diamond. [1][2] In December 2007, the French mineralogy professor François ...
Pierre C. Cartier. Pierre Camille Cartier (March 10, 1878 – October 27, 1964) [1] was a French jeweler. He was one of three sons of Alfred Cartier and the brother of Jacques Cartier and Louis Cartier. Pierre's grandfather, Louis-François Cartier had taken over the jewelry workshop of his teacher Adolphe Picard, in 1847, thereby founding the ...
The Hope Diamond is one of the gems on permanent display there. [4] Her first gift to the National Museum of Natural History was the Hooker Emerald Brooch, which she donated to them in 1977, when it was valued at US$500,000. [5] [6] (She had purchased the brooch from Tiffany & Co. in 1955 for an undisclosed price. [7]) She later gave the museum ...
O. Roy Chalk. Oscar Roy Chalk (June 7, 1907 – December 1, 1995) was a New York entrepreneur who owned real estate, airlines, bus companies, newspapers and a rail line that hauled bananas in Central America. His diverse holdings included DC Transit, Trans Caribbean Airways, the Houdon bust of Thomas Jefferson now at Monticello, the Chalk ...