Category: History - Other
Page. The Regent 14 The Orloff 40 The Koh-i-Nur 83 Koh-i-Nur, as recut 95 Tavernier's Blue Diamond 118 The "Hope Blue" Diamond 119 "Brunswick" Blue Diamond 123 "Hope Blue" Diamond, as mounted 126 The Crown of England 171 The Sanci 183 The Great Mogul 209 The Austrian Yellow 22...
Our own inquiries both in Madrid and St. Petersburg have failed to supply the links that are missing in its history. We cannot say when it finally passed away from the crown of...
9. Part 9The allied chiefs did not waste time, but arrived before Golconda so unexpectedly that Abdullah had barely time to save himself by retiring to his not far-distant hill-fortress....
3. Part 3Alexander I., strange to say, died peacefully in 1826, leaving the throne to his brother Nicholas. Nicholas has been aptly called "the Iron Czar." He was the third son of his fa...
7. Part 7In the middle of the fourteenth century Spain was ruled by a number of petty kings whose wars, assassinations and executions leave a general impression of bloodiness upon the mi...
8. Part 8Now Charles the Bold had three diamonds which were famous throughout Europe as well for their size as for the fact that they were cut by a European lapidary. Louis de Berquen, w...
10. Part 10And such indubitably was the fact The Empress adored him, but he was nobody and has left but little trace in history. He was very fond of money and sometimes resorted to singula...
6. Part 6"This matchless gem combines the beautiful color of the sapphire with the prismatic fire and brilliancy of the diamond, and on account of its extraordinary color, great size and...
11. Part 11In possession of four hundred thousand dollars worth of diamonds, Madame de la Motte's next difficulty was to sell them. This appeared to be impossible in Paris, for when she co...
5. Part 5Shah Shuja seemed to imagine the diamond to be a bearer of blessings. This is the common belief in India with regard to large diamonds, which are supposed to possess magic virtu...
1. Part 1Page. The Regent 14 The Orloff 40 The Koh-i-Nur 83 Koh-i-Nur, as recut 95 Tavernier's Blue Diamond 118 The "Hope Blue" Diamond 119 "Brunswick" Blue Diamond 123 "Hope Blue" Diamo...
2. Part 2In the scrambling restoration of Louis XVIII. it was impossible to have a coronation. Indeed the court of this returned Bourbon was of the quietest, being under the dominion of...
12. Part 12During the episcopacy of Donell MacAulay who occupied the see of Armagh from 1091 to 1105, the sacred bell was inclosed in the gorgeous shrine which, though mutilated, still exc...