Costa Rica Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry 139

 Costa Rica Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry.  

By Samina Aamir

This is the best glimpse of the stone's pavilion I've seen yet in a photograph.

The sole disturbance in the otherwise uneventful history of the Tiffany Yellow concerns reported attempts to sell the stone, which was valued at $12,000,000 at the end of 1983. In 1951 the new chairman of Tiffany's recommended that the gem be sold, a decision which not surprisingly horrified certain members of the old Board. A buyer agreed to pay $500,000 for the stone but the deal fell through because the chairman wanted a check in full whereas the prospective buyer wished for other financial arrangements to be made. Then on 

November 17th, 1972 the New York Times carried an advertisement by Tiffany offering to sell the diamond for $5,000,000. However, in the circumstances it would be as well to recall the story of the eager new salesman who, when asked what he would get if he sold the famous gem, was promptly told by the head of the firm 'Fired!'

Burundi Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry 138

 Burundi Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry.  

By Samina Aamir

The rough stone was brought to Paris, where Tiffany’s chief gemologist, Dr. George Frederick Kunz, supervised the cutting of the diamond into a cushion-shape brilliant weighing 128.54 carats with an unprecedented 82 facets—24 more facets than the traditional 58-facet brilliant cut. The stone is just over an inch wide and seven-eighths of an inch from top to bottom. Cut to enhance its radiant color rather than size, the diamond sparkles as if lit by an inner flame

Angola Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry 137

Angola Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry.  

By Samina Aamir

An alternative example of such a price fall caused by introduction of a new simulant strongly undermining prices was the permanent fall in natural pearl prices with the introduction of cultured pearls[citation needed] . The mechanism by which prices were affected was complex. In part because of the social acceptability of wearing cultured pearls to much of the market, customers migrated from the natural to the lower-price cultured product[citation needed] . This altered the supply and demand situation for natural pearls and perhaps the overall prestige of pearls in general was lowered[citation needed] . In 

cases where synthetic stones have been much less socially acceptable to the market as a replacement for the natural version, the prestige of the natural stones has been retained[citation needed] . Thus increased availability and lowered prices of synthetics may or may not have major implications for the future price of natural diamonds[citation needed] . In addition, the introduction of synthetic rubies in the late 19th century did not appear to have a permanent effect on the price of natural rubies[citation needed] .