Michael's sent me its first Fall Decor email. We did not get out of the first week of August for the Back to School and Fall promotions.
For some reason I wondered about the biggest diamond and what it is. The biggest diamond in the world is the Cullinan diamond - it is 3,106 carats and 1.3 pounds. It was found in 1905 in the Premier Mine (now Cullinan Diamond Mine) in Pretoria South Africa by Thomas Evan Powell. Today it is located in London and is on the head of England's royal Sceptre. It is in the picture of Queen Elizabeth at her coronation. You saw that a few days ago.
This largest diamond became nine major stones and 96 smaller diamonds that were cut from it. The Lesser Star of Africa is known as Cullinan II is part of the British crown jewels' Imperial State Crown. These precious stones live in the Tower of London. You can find out about Cullinan Mine diamonds - there are eight legends - HERE. One of those stones is the Taylor-Burton Diamond given by Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor for her 40th birthday.
The top 10 diamonds in the world are listed in this article HERE. The Cullinan shows up as number 3 worth 337 million euros. At position 2 is The Sancy - considered priceless in that the diamond is so rare and expensive that an exact value is not known, and finally Koh-i-Noor - the finest white diamond discovered in 1294. It means "mountain of light" in Persian and was 'confiscated' by the British East India Company and now the property of the British Crown. The possible value is over 1 billion euro - that's almost 1.5 billion Canadian dollars.
De Beers began a marketing campaign in 1938 that caused the diamond engagement ring craze. So diamonds have been popular ever since. The most diamonds set into one ring? It would be 7,777 in India on May 7, 2019. It is the "Lotus Ring". How about the biggest bling ever: a $500,000 watch with 15,000 diamonds. That's another Guinness record.
In 2018, a Coca-Cola bottle-shaped handbag was covered with 9,888 diamonds. It has the record for most diamonds set on a handbag. And there is a Gibson guitar with 11,441 diamonds.
There are pages and pages of diamond jokes. Here's an excellent example:
A lady enters a jeweller's and says "You sold my husband a diamond ring yesterday but it's the wrong size". "No problem madam, we can adjust the finger size easily". "Oh, you don't understand, you sold him a one carat size, and I take a five carat size".
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