Where Is The Hope Diamond

Its much-admired rare blue color is due to trace amounts of boron atoms.

Where is the hope diamond. It was formed a hundred miles beneath the surface of the earth and carried. The house where heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean once lived with the 455-carat Hope Diamond is on the market in Georgetowns west village for 2250000. The Hope Diamond is a famous doom diamond in history.

Hope diamond was discovered in India in the 1600s and purchased by King Louis XIV in 1668. Smithsonian Institution Diamonds have fascinated mankind for centuries and its. The history of the stone which was eventually named the Hope diamond began when the French merchant traveller Jean Baptiste Tavernier purchased a 112 316-carat diamond.

The diamond first bought from a mine in India was recut as the French Blue after King Louis XIV acquired it. The Hope Diamond was named after the great diamond collector and one time owner Henry Philip Hope. The Hope Diamonds Value.

McLean would often attach other diamonds including the McLean diamond and the Star of the East. The Hope Diamond also known as Le Bijou du Roi the Kings Jewel Le bleu de France the Blue of France and the Tavernier Blue is a large 4552-carat 9104 g deep-blue diamond and now housed in the National Gem and Mineral collection at the Smithsonian Institutions Natural History Museum in Washington DCIt is blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within. Weighing 4552 carats its exceptional size has revealed new findings about the formation of diamonds.

Its appearance is always accompanied by homicide and looting and several owners have died strangely. It is about the size of a walnut. Hope is the name of the family who owned it from 1824.

The Hope Diamond is today located at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the diamond is put on display. After the king died in 1830 his executor the Duke of Wellington had to sell the blue diamond to pay off his debts. The stone originated from the Kollur Mine Telangana in India.