Hope diamond

Hope diamond

The Hope Diamond worth and history: curse, price, location, museum, owners, necklace, carat, story, images, cost (New update 2025)

When Kate Winslet starred as Rose in the 1997 film Titanic, she looked truly stunning after putting on the Heart of the Ocean Sapphire. This particular

The Hope Diamond is revealed in its new publicly chosen setting, "Embracing Hope," and is now on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Scientists at the Natural History Museum search for the elusive "recipe" that endows the famed gem with its unique blue color

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The Hope diamond is the largest blue diamond in the world that is a part of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History collection. Harry Winston gifted it to this prestigious institution in Washington DC

In an exclusive excerpt from 'T​he Cartiers​' by Francesca Cartier Brickell, the legend of the world's most infamous gem.

It's hard to imagine that a precious metal that is prominently featured in the world's finest jewelry was once belittled and cast aside by the Spanish conquistadors. While mining for silver in Rio Pinto, Colombia in the 1500s, they named the curious metal "platina" or "little silver." In one version of the story, the conquistadors threw the platinum nuggets back into the river hoping they would ripen into silver. Learn more about platinum on our blog.

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