The most expensive jewels sold on auctions – interesting information
There are jewels that activate extraordinary emotions. Not only they are beautiful but also their size, color and shape makes them very unique. One of them has been found not a very long time ago. It saw day light last year, and it caused sensation right away. It is not surprising. Such a discovery cannot be heard every day. We are talking about one of the largest and most beautiful yellow pear-shaped diamonds called Sun Drop, which has been recently auctioned.
Experts predicted that its price can reach up to 15 million dollars. From internet service diamontworld.net we could find out that cutting and grinding of this unique, found in 2010 in South Africa were made in a stone factory Cora International, specializing in the treatment of the largest and rarest gemstones. But before it went into the hands of new owner, Sun Drop, like a true star, took a tour around the world, hosting at the premises of the house share Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, New York and London. Sun Drop was sold on the 15th of November 2011.
December 2011 was very special for rich Elizabeth Taylor’s fans. On that month Christies Auction House has organized the auction of Taylor’s diamond jewelry and other jewels collection. This collection was sold for a record price – 116 million dollars!!! Those extraordinary pieces of jewelry art are unique. Some of them appeared in the films that Elizabeth Taylor acted in. Christie estimated the price of whole collection for 20 million dollars. However, each belonging gem that belonged to Taylor reached much higher price. The most expensive among all the jewels gathered in collection was a necklace called “La Peregrina” with a huge pearl, found in the sixteenth century. Its name stands for “a pilgrim”. Mary Tudor was its first owner, later it belonged to the Spanish royal family, and finally in 1969 Richard Burton that has been Elizabeth Taylor’s husband at that time bought this magnificent thing for her. You can easily find pictures of this collection on the Internet. It is also interesting to follow the upcoming auctions organized by the most famous auction houses.
Maybe you’ve heard about Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond? 31-carat Blue Wittelsbacher is one of the world’s biggest diamonds. This jewel’s history is simply extraordinary Its name comes from the German Wittelsbach dynasty. The jewel became its property in 1772. After the World War I it has been nearly sold to Christies auction house but in the last moment in the mysterious circumstances jewel has been replaced by worthless substitute. Nobody has heard about Blue Wittelsbacher until the exhibition that took place in the 50’s in Brussels. In 2008 world’s biggest blue diamond was bought by collector Laurence Graff. He paid 24 million dollars for it. We have to say that it’s not a bagatelle!!! Laurence Graff lend the jewel to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. Viewers could admire it in 2010. Researchers suspect that this jewel comes from India from the same mine as famous “Hope” diamond. But it’s only guess and supposition – we’ll probably never know the truth about this beautiful miracle of nature!
It’s hard to imagine how expensive and valuable can be those small stones found somewhere in mines. It’s hard to say why they can cost even thousands or millions of dollars. It’s probably because they are unique and there is not so many of them in the world. Everything that is one of a kind have to cost a lot of money. Especially collectors can appreciate the treasures they have. If you are interested in the most precious jewelry collections search the Internet! You’ll find a lot of interesting information and pictures of world’s most beautiful and expensive jewels. There is also a lot of great books and albums about this topic. Jewelry is definitely one of those things that always will make our hearts beat faster. It’s so beautiful that you simply can’t resist it!!!
