In the pendant surrounding the Hope Diamond are 16 white diamonds, both pear-shapes and cushion cuts. A bail is soldered to the pendant where Mrs. McLean would often attach other diamonds including ...

Shine a white light on the Hope Diamond and it will dazzle you with the brilliance of an amazing blue diamond. Shine an ultraviolet light on the Hope Diamond and the gem will glow red-orange for ...

The Golconda Blue's story traces back to the legendary Golconda mines in present-day Telangana, India - the same source of world-famous diamonds like the Koh-i-Noor and the Hope Diamond.

the Hope Diamond weighs 45.52 carats and is renowned for its deep blue color. Estimated to be worth around $250 million, it currently resides at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington ...

According to The London Express a telegram has been received in Paris stating that Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector and merchant, who formerly owned the famous blue Hope diamond ...

The world's largest deep blue diamond is the "Hope Diamond," a 45.52-carat stone housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Diamonds apparently are recession-proof. Christie's ...

While this gemstone is well-known for its colorless or white variety, there are colored diamonds, such as the famous Hope diamond. Diamonds can also come in black, blue, green, pink ...

Chip Clark / NMNH, SI At first, Evalyn Walsh McLean, an heiress living in Washington, D.C., didn’t want to buy the Hope Diamond. She was unhappy with the setting surrounding the precious blue ...

Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered ...