Heart Diamonds for Valentines’ Day

Posted on January 27, 2008
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The heart has always been a symbol of love, and heart shaped jewelry has been popular for centuries. But a solitaire loose diamond heart —a stone whose brilliance and fire has been shaped through heat and pressure, and proven to be more beautiful because of it—is the perfect analogy for a relationship that will last a lifetime.

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Diamond Cut

Posted on December 22, 2007
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The most popular of diamond cuts is the modern round brilliant, whose facet arrangements and proportions have been perfected by both mathematical and empirical analysis. Also popular are the fancy cuts which come in a variety of shapes—many of which were derived from the round brilliant.

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My First Post! The World’s Most Famous Diamond

Posted on November 6, 2007
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While you can expect our Diamond of the Day Specials here, along with diamond education and facts, I made this first post a little more special. Here is the story of the Hope Diamond, the World’s most famous diamond.

Hope Diamond’s history can be easily traced to a blue diamond named the Tavernier Blue, which was originally mined from the Kollur mine in Golconda, India, and was a crudely cut triangle shape of 112 3/16 carats (22.44 g). French merchant-traveler Jean-Baptiste Tavernier purchased it sometime in 1660 or 1661. According to legend, the Tavernier Blue was stolen from an eye of a sculpted idol of the Hindu goddess Sita, the wife of Rama, the Seventh Avatara of Vishnu…

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