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Discovered in South Africa in 1877, the stone was purchased by New York jeweler Charles Tiffany. His gemologist, George Frederick Kunz, studied the gem for a year before beginning to cut it; reducing it from 287 carats (57.5g) to its current size. The cutting was carried out in Paris.
One of famous yellow diamond is the Tiffany Yellow Diamond. The Tiffany Yellow Diamond is one of the largest yellow diamonds ever discovered; it weighed 287.42 carats (57.484 g) in the rough when discovered in 1878 in the Kimberley mine in South Africa, and was cut into a cushion shape of 128.54 carats (25.708 g) with 90 facets
"In 1879, the Tiffany branch in Paris obtained the Tiffany Diamond, which weighed 287.42 carats in the rough. It was the largest yellow diamond found up to that time. The formidable task of supervising the cutting of this extraordinary stone was the responsibility of one George Frederick Kunz (1856-1932).The cutting process took exceptional courage and insight. Kunz added an additional 32 facets to the accepted square antique brilliant cut, bringing the total to ninety. The result is an exceptionally scintillating cut which returns a great deal of light to the eye. Large diamonds of comparable brilliance were not fashioned until well into the 20th century.
The gem was on loan from Tiffany & Co. to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. and was on display from April 18th, 2007 until September 23rd, 2007. At the time, Jeffrey E. Post, the museum`s gem curator, said that this is the largest diamond on display in the U.S. The diamond is known to have been worn by only two women, Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse in 1957 and Audrey Hepburn in 1961.
At present, yellow diamonds are as famous as most of the celebrities wore it like:
Pink diamondsare commercially rare, highly valued, and greatly admired. Pink diamonds get their color from the rough diamond’s internal molecular structure.
Famous Pink Diamonds:
GRAFF PINK DIAMOND
The stone is classified as “fancy intense pink” – the best rating for a pink diamond, by the Gemological Institute of America. The emerald cut diamond is mounted on a silver ring with 2 flanking field-shaped diamonds. The rare 24.78 carat pink diamond, once owned by American celebrity jeweler Harry Winston, has been described as "one of the greatest diamonds ever discovered". The diamond, mounted in a ring, was became the most expensive single jewel ever sold at auction. This rare pink diamond smashed the world record for a jewel at auction, having been sold for $46m at Sotheby’s Geneva in November 16, 2010. The 24.78-carat stone was bought by renowned London jeweler Laurence Graff, and immediately named the Graff Pink.
HORTENSIA DIAMOND
The diamond weighs 20 carats (20.53 metric carats) is pale orangey-pink, rather flat and rectangular in shape and is cut on five sides. This peach color diamond was named after Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland - Josephine’s daughter and the step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte. After Louis XIV bought it, the Hortensia became a part of the French Crown Jewels. It can be viewed in the Louvre museum in Paris.
DARYA-YE NOOR
Weighing182 carats, (36.4 g), this is one of the largest pink diamonds in the world. Its color, pale pink, is one of the rarest to be found in diamonds. In 1965, a Canadian team conducting research on the Iranian Crown Jewels concluded that the Darya-e-Noor may well have been part of a large pink diamond that had been studded in the throne of the mughal emperor Shah Jehan, and had been described in the journal of the French jeweler Tavernier in 1642, who called it the "Diamanta Grande Table". This diamond may have been cut into two pieces; the larger part is the Darya-e-Noor ("Sea of Light").
NOOR-OL AIN (the light of the eye)
It is one of the largest pink diamonds in the world and is believed to have once formed part of an even larger gem. The principal diamond mounted in a tiara of the same name made for IranianEmpress Farah Pahlavi's wedding to ShahMohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1958. The diamond is believed to have been recovered from the Golconda mines in India and was brought into the Iranian Imperial collection after the conquest of that country by Nader Shah Afshar in the 18th century.
STEINMETZ PINK DIAMOND
The Steinmetz Pink is the largest known diamond weighing 59.60 carats (11.92 g) and having been rated Vivid Pink by the Gemological Institute of America. As a result of this exceptional rarity, the Steinmetz Group took a cautious 20 months to cut the Pink. It was unveiled in Monaco on May 29, 2003, in a public ceremony.
Some famous people who wear Pink Diamond:
Jennifer Lopez got an engagement ring with the 6.5 carat pink heart shaped diamond.
Blue
Diamondis
a rare and most expensive one. It is naturally blue, range in color from pale
sky blue to a vivid peacock blue with or without other color casts. The mineral
Boron in the stone gives natural Blue Diamonds their color during the stone’s
formation. . Most natural blue diamonds are a very light blue. The source and
origin of most of the intensely-colored blue diamonds is the Cullinan and
Premier diamond mines in South Africa. Other places where blue diamonds have
been found include India, the Central African Republic, Brazil, Borneo and
Guyana in South America - source of some diamonds of a uniquely remarkable
turquoise to aquamarine blue in color.
Here are some of the Famous Blue Diamonds:
May
2009 - an internally flawless, 7.03 carat cushion-cut, fancy vivid blue diamond
sold for $9.48 million dollars - a record-setting high price-per-carat ever at
Sotheby's Geneva auction.
The Millennium Blue a 5.16 carat pear-shape, internally
flawless, fancy vivid blue, sold for $6.4 million dollars at Sotheby's Hong
Kong auction in April, 2010.
In October 2010, the largest known triangular fancy vivid blue diamond
ever auctioned (10.95 carats), aka the Bulgari Blue, set yet another auction record of $15.7
million dollars, making it top gemstone sale of 2010.
This 30.06-carat blue diamond was cut by
the William Goldberg Corporation. He named the stone after his wife, Lili. The
stone's shape is a sort of tapered cushion and named as Bluelili Diamond.
The Heart
of Eternity is a rarest one, belonging to the category of famous diamonds
in the world. Heart of Eternity was discovered in the Premier Diamond mine
located in South Africa.
The Blue Magic is a
12.02 carat modified pear-shaped diamond of an exquisite fancy vivid (the
highest color grade) blue color with a clarity of VVS-2.
Hope Diamond is 45.52 carat steel, it
is blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within its crystal
structure, but it exhibits red phosphorescence after exposure to ultraviolet
light. It isone of the most famous
diamonds in the world.
Terschenko diamond
is a 42.92 pear shaped fancy blue believed to be of Indian origin. Originally
owned by the Terschenko family (sugar barons in pre-communist Russia) it was
smuggled out of the country just prior to the Russian revolution. It was
purchased by Saudi Arabian diamond dealer Robert Mouawad for $4.5 million from auction
at Christies.
The
Eugenie Blue is a
30.82 carats heart-shaped fancy vivid or fancy deep blue diamond. It remains to
this day at the Smithsonian museum, on display as part of the museum's diamond
collections.
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