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Blue Heart Diamond The Blue Heart weighs 30.82 carats and has a rare, deep blue color. The Parisian firm Atanik Ekyanan of Neuilly cut it into a heart shape in 1909 or 1910, and this date raises the issue of whether the rough stone came from Africa or from India. In 1910 Cartier purchased the diamond and sold it to an Argentinean woman named Mrs. Unzue. At the time, it was set in a lily-of-the-valley corsage and remained so until Van Cleef & Arpels bought the gem in 1953. They exhibited it set in a pendant to a necklace valued at $300,000 and sold it to a European titled family. In 1959 Harry Winston acquired the gem, selling it five years later, mounted in a ring, to Marjorie Merriweather Post. Mrs. Post donated the Blue Heart to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., where it remains to this day. Color: deep blue Rough Weight(carat): 103 Cut Weight(carat): 30.82 Cut: Heart
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Heart of Eternity Diamond perhaps the largest fancy vivid blue, weighing 27.64 carats (5.53 g). Color: blue Cut Weight(carat): 27.64 Cut: Heart Country of origin: South Africa Date discovered: January 2000
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Hope Diamond 45.52 carats (9.10 g), is a Fancy Dark Grayish-Blue diamond and supposedly cursed. Almost certainly cut from the French Blue Diamond. Color: blue Cut Weight(carat): 45.52 Cut: Antique Cushion Country of origin: India
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Idol's Eye The Idol's Eye diamond is a 70.21-carat, colorless diamond with a slightly bluish tinge, characteristic of diamonds originating from the Golconda Mines in Southern India. Color: Light Blue Rough Weight(carat): 70.21 Cut Weight(carat): 70.21 Country of origin: India Date discovered: mid 16th century
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Jones Diamond The ˇ°Jones Diamond,ˇ± also known as the ˇ°Punch Jones Diamond,ˇ± "The Grover Jones Diamond," or "The Horseshoe Diamond," was a 34.48 carat (6.896 g) alluvial diamond found in Peterstown, West Virginia by members of the Jones family. It remains the largest alluvial diamond ever discovered in North America. Color: blueish-white Cut Weight(carat): 34.48 Cut: Horseshoe Country of origin: America Date discovered: 1928
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Nassak Diamond The Nassak Diamond (also known as the Nassac Diamond[2] and the Eye of the Idol[3]) is a large, 43.38 carats (8.68 g) diamond that originated as a larger diamond in the 15th century in India. Color: blue-white Cut Weight(carat): 43.38 Cut: Emerald Country of origin: India Date discovered: 15th century
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Ocean Dream Diamond the only known natural Fancy Deep Blue-Green, and weighs 5.51 carats (1.10 g). Color: blue-green Cut Weight(carat): 5.51 Cut: Fancy Trillion Country of origin: Central Africa
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Regent Diamond weights 140.64 carats (28.13 g), is cushion-shaped stellar brilliant cut, formerly belonging to Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Napoleon Bonaparte, it now resides in the Louvre. Color: white with pale blue Rough Weight(carat): 410 Cut Weight(carat): 140.64 Cut: Cushion Country of origin: India Date discovered: 1698
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Tereschenko The fancy blue pear-shaped diamond weighing 42.92(8.4 g) metric carats, the fourth largest recorded blue diamond Color: blue Cut Weight(carat): 42 Cut: Pear Country of origin: probably India
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Vargas diamond The Vargas Diamond, discovered in Brazil on August 13, 1938 by Joaquim Venancio Tiago and Manoel Miguel Domingues, was 726.6 carats (145.3 g) when pulled out of the ground. Twenty nine smaller diamonds were carved from the larger rough Vargas Diamond including the 48.26-carat (9.65 g) emerald cut diamond named "President Vargas". Color: blue-white Rough Weight(carat): 726.6 Cut: Rough Diamond Country of origin: Brazil Date discovered: 1938
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Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond 35.56 carats (7.11 g), Fancy Deep Grayish Blue, VS2 clarity., antique oval stellar brilliant cut - was recut! Sold at Christie's, London, December 10, 2008 for $23.4 million to Lawrence Graff, currently the second highest price ever paid for a diamond at auction. Color: blue Cut Weight(carat): 35.56 Cut: Antique oval stellar brilliant Country of origin: India Date discovered: Mid-1600s
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