{"id":77,"date":"2009-04-30T03:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T08:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/04\/30\/sothebys-blue-diamond-to-be-featured\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T03:11:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T08:11:16","slug":"sothebys-blue-diamond-to-be-featured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/2009\/04\/30\/sothebys-blue-diamond-to-be-featured\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby&#8217;s:  Blue Diamond to be Featured&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/SflHBhsyeWI\/AAAAAAAABqA\/sD3hnpv57cs\/s1600-h\/bluediamondSothebysMagJewels.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;width: 204px;height: 190px\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/63ba2_bluediamondSothebysMagJewels.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The centerpiece of the forthcoming Magnificent Jewels sale in Geneva is an important and rare fancy vivid blue, internally flawless, cushion-shaped diamond weighing 7.03 carats (pictured left), cut from a 26.58 carat rough discovered in 2008 at Petra Diamonds\u2019 historic Cullinan diamond mine in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer will have the honour of naming the diamond (est. CHF 6.8-10 million \/ $5.8-8.5 million).     At a weight of 7.03 carats, the stone ranks among the most important blue diamonds ever to be offered for sale by Sotheby\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has graded it as fancy vivid blue in colour and internally flawless in clarity, the highest possible grading for a blue diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Blue diamonds, which are among the rarest of all gems, owe their colour to the presence of the<br \/>chemical element boron during the stone\u2019s formation. The Cullinan mine is the world\u2019s most consistently reliable source of blue diamonds and this stone is a perfect example of Cullinan diamonds at their best.<\/p>\n<p><span>Source: Press Release  http:\/\/sothebys.com <\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjewel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/63ba2_4698837677539896356-4159152708762772363?l=dailyjewel.blogspot.com\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The centerpiece of the forthcoming Magnificent Jewels sale in Geneva is an important and rare fancy vivid blue, internally flawless, cushion-shaped diamond weighing 7.03 carats (pictured left), cut from a 26.58 carat rough discovered in 2008 at Petra Diamonds\u2019 historic Cullinan diamond mine in South Africa. The buyer will have the honour of naming the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}