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...pressure of a button to display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern swinging within; 5) the Queen Victoria paper weight, displaying that sovereign carved dumpily in jade, wearing a diamond crown...
...ordinary "engagement diamond" weighs about half a carat...
Christie's, smartest of London auction rooms, buzzed eagerly last week, as an auctioneer rapped to announce that he would sell the 61 ½%-carat diamond "Golden Dawn," since 1913 the property of its disc verer Captain C. R. Lucas, who found it near Kimberly, South Africa...
Amid surprise, stillness reigned. No dealer raised the Aga Khan, though amateurs had expected the "Golden Dawn" to bring much more. Why did a 61½% -carat stone of such perfection go so cheap? Attention was distracted from this interesting question for a time by the coincidence that Princess Therese Aga Khan, wife of the Aga Khan III, died in a Paris hospital almost at the moment when her husband was bidding at Christie's. But why did the "Golden Dawn" go under the hammer at only ?4,950 ($24,057)? The price of diamonds has long been relative...
...readiness for Their Majesties Third Court of the present season. The Queen-Empress, seated before her dressing table, pondered the advisability of adding the Koh-i-nor to her already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly for the 516 ½ carat fragment of the 3025 ¾ carats (before cutting) Cullinan Diamond, the chief diadem of the British Crown. Or conceivably Her Majesty remembered that a common "engagement size" diamond (roughly 3/16 inches in diameter) weighs approximately ½ carat. The Queen-Empress, no diamond glutton, donned...