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CTF Pink Star Diamond The 10 Most Expensive Diamonds Ever Sold at Auction
By Grant Mobley
Fancy Vivid Blue 5.04 carat diamond Christie’s Just Sold the Azure Blue, the Largest Fancy Blue Diamond Ever Offered
By Grant Mobley
Extraordinary Blue and Pink Diamonds Headline Sotheby’s New York High Jewelry Sale
By Grant Mobley
Sothebys Artistic Luxury Auction Imperial Jewels (Courtesy of Sotheby's) Imperial Jewels Linked to Catherine the Great Resurface After a Century in Hiding
By Grant Mobley
Jwaneng 28.88 Diamond De Beers’ 28.88-Carat Jwaneng Diamond Sells for $2.6 Million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong
By Grant Mobley
Famous Diamonds View More
The Diamonds That Defined America’s First Ladies
By Sarah Cassuto
At Crater of Diamonds State Park, You Can Actually Find—and Keep—Your Own Diamond
By Meredith Lepore
The Uncle Sam Diamond May Be America’s Best-Kept Secret
By Grant Mobley
The Tiffany & Co. Empire Diamond Necklace Diamonds at the World’s Fair: A History of Stones That Stopped the World
By Grant Mobley
Rough Brazilian diamonds, Minas Gerais, late 18th century. (Courtesy of The Royal Treasure Museum) How Brazil Became the Diamond Capital of the World
By Grant Mobley
Royal Stories View More
swedish crown jewels The Swedish Crown Jewels Are a European Dynasty Told Through Diamonds
By Meredith Lepore
The Rainbow of Royal Colored Diamonds
By Josie Goodbody
princess diana lover's knot tiara Inside the Enduring Royal Legacy of the Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara
By Hannah Militano
How Princess Diana Revolutionized Royal Jewelry Rules
By Josie Goodbody
Royal Danish Crown Jewel Collection Brilliant Cut Diamond Parure. The Spectacular History of the Danish Crown Jewels
By Meredith Lepore
All Historic Diamonds
The Blue Pear-Shaped Zoe Diamond (Courtesy of Sotheby's) The Zoe Diamond: The Mysterious Blue Diamond That Broke Two World Records
By Grant Mobley
The Heart of Eternity Diamond (Courtesy of Diacore) The Heart of Eternity Diamond: Twice the Size of Blue Diamonds That Sold for $50 Million
By Grant Mobley
Margot Robbie Wore Elizabeth Taylor's Taj Mahal Diamond pendant necklace to the Wuthering Heights premiere The History and Mysteries of Elizabeth Taylor’s Taj Mahal Diamond
By Marion Fasel
Briolette of India Diamond: Portrait of Philanthropist Florence Meyer Blumenthal The Briolette of India: The World’s Oldest Diamond on Record
By Grant Mobley
What Nan Kempner’s American Chic Still Teaches Us About Wearing Diamonds
By Meredith Lepore
Sancy Diamond

Diamond Hall of Fame:
The Sancy Diamond
By Jill Newman
The 41-carat Dresden Green Diamond (Photographed by Benjamin Bouchet for Only Natural Diamonds) A Rare Encounter Reveals New Details About the Dresden Green Diamond
By Grant Mobley
dua lipa bulgari serpenti Panthers, Swans, and Crocodiles, Oh My! Animal Jewelry’s Wildest Icons
By Meredith Lepore
Inside the Extraordinary Lives of 5 Legendary Jewelry Collectors
By Lynn Yaeger
Cullinan Mine The Infinite Blue Diamond (Courtesy of Sotheby's) The Cullinan Mine Is Still Unearthing the World’s Rarest Blue Diamonds
By Jill Newman
The 128.54-carat yellow Tiffany Diamond. (Courtesy of Tiffany & Co.) The Tiffany Diamond: The Dazzling History of the Most Famous Yellow Diamond
By Hannah Militano
Step Inside “Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style,” the New Exhibition
By Josie Goodbody
The Okavango Blue Diamond: Botswana’s Dazzling National Treasure
By Shelley Brown
Nancy Astor When Lady Astor’s Cartier Tiara Hit the Auction Block After Nearly a Century
By Grant Mobley
Egyptian Jewelry Egyptian-inspired colored stone and diamond Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet. (Courtesy of Sotheby's) Why the Ancient Magic of Egyptian Jewelry Still Endures 5,000 Years Later
By Hannah Militano
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