Word: cullinan
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...cabin doors, stood guard until dawn with his son Jacobus Jr. Next morning the stone was weighed at 726 carats, took rank as the fourth largest ever found. Cut as a single stone it would be second only to the Star of Africa which was cut from the Cullinan stone and is now a British Crown jewel. Dealer Winston, mindful that the U. S. has no diamond to compare with it in size,* assumed an air of national trusteeship, said he would carry it to Manhattan himself on a U. S. boat. Said he: "I do not think the American...
...examination of the Jonkers, London experts last week threw doubt on the first theory that it had once been a chip of the Cullinan, world's No. 1 diamond, found in 1905 only three miles from Jonkers' diggings. The Jonkers is bluer and purer, so pure that Diamond Corp. officials were hoping someone rich and ostentatious would come forward to buy it as a single stone. Otherwise it will be sent, possibly to Amsterdam, to be cut up into small diamonds to fit smaller purses...
...years bearded old Jacobus J. Jonker got poorer, greyer and dingier washing South African gravel in the prospector's enduring hope of someday finding a diamond as big as an egg at his feet. Three miles away from his miserable diggings at Elandsfontein another prospector had found the Cullinan Diamond, big as an orange, one hot January day in 1905. A $5,000 find several years ago enabled Jacobus Jonker to hire a black Kaffir boy to do his digging. One of the Jonker sons was watching the black one day last week when the Kaffir threw...
Experts last week christened the new diamond the "Jonker Stone," guessed that it may be a lost chip off its onetime neighbor, the Cullinan. The Cullinan made nine big stones of which the two biggest are now in the King of England's sceptre and crown...
...Cullinan (3,025 k); No. 2, Excelsior (969½ k); No. 3. Great Mogul...