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Moussaieff Red Diamond |
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| The William
Goldberg Diamond Corporation, famous for outstanding stones
like the Premier Rose and the Guinea Star, cut this gem
from a 13.90-carat rough. They transformed the piece into
a spectacular red diamond weighing 5.11 carats. The GIA
states, "It is the largest Fancy Red, natural color
diamond that we have graded as of the date the report
was issued." The stone is a triangular brilliant,
sometimes refered to as a trillion or a trilliant cut.
It was cut sometime in the mid-1990s, so its history is
still relatively uneventful. Sometime around 2001 or 2002
the stone was purchased by Moussaieff Jewellers Ltd. The
firm, while it has no website as of yet, is renowned for
multi-million dollar pieces of jewelry and has locations
in the United States as well as abroad. |
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| The Moussaieff
Red paid a visit to the Smithsonian Museum in 2003,
being part of an exhibit titled The Splendour of
Diamonds (above photo). The exhibit lasted from
June 27th to September 30th and featured a number
of other unusual colored diamonds, namely the Millennium
Star, the Heart of Eternity, the Pumpkin Diamond,
the Allnatt Diamond, the Ocean Dream, and the Steinmetz
Pink. |
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| Michael
Hing, a gemologist in Great Britain, was shown the stone
in person in London sometime around 2002. "It’s
a really suprising cranberry colour, quite unlike any
other diamond I’ve ever seen," he writes. "The
actual color of the stone is much more like the top photo
[on this page] than the bottom photo." |
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