[PIC] 10 Berlian paling Legend dalam sejarah

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The famous saying about diamond is that “Diamonds are forever”  because a diamond  symbolizes eternal love, purity and  strength. Diamonds were formed at least 990 million years ago, although some are  estimated to be as many as 4.25 billion years old. A diamond is known by its 4 C’s. There are four different characteristics- the Carat, the Color, the Cut  and the Clarity. A number of large or extraordinary diamonds have gained fame, both as exquisite examples of the beautiful nature of  diamonds, and because of the famous people who wore, bought, and sold  them. A list of most famous diamonds in history follows.
The origin of the diamond is unclear, although rumors abound. According  to some sources, the Koh-i-noor was originally found more than 5000  years ago. Some mythological beliefs held about it are that the diamond was from the Sun God to his avatar which produces 1000 kg of gold daily. Krishna got the blame of stealing the diamond from the avatar’s brother  who is killed by a lion. Krishna, to restore  his reputation, fought a fierce battle with Jāmbavān and gave the stone  back to the avatar. Now being ashamed with himself he offered his  daughter’s hand to Krishna along with the stone. Krishna accepted his  daughter hand but refused to take the stone.

10. Tiffany Yellow Diamond

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The Tiffany Yellow Diamond is one  of the largest yellow diamonds  ever discovered; it weighed 287.42  carats in the rough when  discovered in 1878 in the Kimberley mine in  South  Africa. Founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany in 1837, Tiffany &  Co. came to the  fore among diamond merchants during the second half of  the 1800s. During  the political disturbances in Paris in 1848, which  cumulated in the  overthrough of King Louis Philippe, the firm bought a  large quantity of  jewels. At the sale of the French Crown Jewels in  1887, Tiffany’s bought  a great diamond necklace of Empress Eugénie,  considered at the time to  have been the finest single item to go on  sale.

9. Centenary Diamond

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On  March 1, 1988, De Beers was having a big bash to celebrate their 100   years in business. Chairman Julian Oglivie capped off his speech with a   little tidbit that stunned the crowd – De Beers’ Premier Mine had   recently uncovered a diamond that was perfect in color and weighed 599   carats. It had been found nearly two years before; the company kept it   quiet for the sole purpose of flaunting it at their 100th anniversary.   It didn’t get to keep all 599 of those carats, though – it had to be cut   down to remove some cracks around the edges and it took 154 days to  cut  50 carats away. That was just the beginning of the stone’s overhaul  –  when all was said and done, the Centenary ended up weighing 273.85   carats with 247 facets. It was on loan to the Tower of London for a   number of years (have any of you seen it?), but it’s rumored that the   stone has since been sold. De Beers remains mum on the subject, saying   they respect their clients’ anonymity.

8. Hope Diamond

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The Hope Diamond is a large, 45.52 carats (9.10 g), deep-blue diamond, housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in  Washington, D.C. The Hope Diamond is blue  to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within  its crystal structure. It is famous for supposedly being cursed. The legend holds that the original form of the Hope Diamond was stolen from an eye of a  sculpted idol of the Hindu goddess Sita and the specific legends about the Hope Diamond’s “cursed origin” were  invented in the early 20th century to add mystique to the stone.

7. Orlov Diamond

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The Orlov (sometimes spelled Orloff) is a large diamond that is part of the collection of the Diamond  Fund of the Moscow Kremlin. The origin of this  resplendent relic – described as having the shape and proportions of  half a hen’s  egg – can be traced back to 18th century in southern India. The particulars of the Orlov’s story have been lost with time, but it is  widely reported that the diamond once served as an eye of the statue in a temple in southern India. The man held responsible for its removal was a French deserter, a grenadier from the Carnatic wars who apparently died after touching the gem. The Orlov is a rarity among historic diamonds, for it retains its  original Indian rose-style cut. Its colour is widely stated as white with a faint  bluish-green tinge.

6. Klopman diamond

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The Klopman diamond is a fabulous, legendaryand huge diamond,  said to have a curse associated with it.
The Klopman diamond was originally the subject of a traditional joke, a  typical version of which is:

A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an  elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had  ever seen. He asked her about it.
“This is the Klopman diamond,” she said. “It is beautiful, but it’s  like the Hope diamond; there is a terrible curse that goes with  it.” “What’s the curse?” the man asked. She said “Mr. Klopman.”

  Due to the use of the name “Klopman” and the somewhat dark humor, and  the fact that it was one of Myron  Cohen’s standards, this joke is sometimes characterised as Yiddish in origin. Some commentators maintain  that names other than Klopman would not be as funny, and point to the  fact that this joke has survived essentially unaltered for decades.
A later joke of Myron Cohen, similar in nature, goes as follows:

The very same Mrs. Klopman was told by her doctor  that she had a  fatal condition and would never outlive her husband. She  immediately  commissioned a world-famous portrait artist to paint her  portrait, which  was to be hung above the mantel in the living room. As  she posed for  the portrait, she asked the artist “When you’re done…if  you have some  paints left….I vant you should add some things to the  painting….. I  vant you should paint on my wrist a three-tiered  diamond tennis  bracelet,” she said. “Also, paint on Tahitian black  pearl earrings the  size of grapes.” She continued in this vein, asking  him to paint several  rings on her fingers and a ruby and diamond tiara  for good measure. The  artist did as he was told, and turned out a  dazzling portrait. When the job was finished, before he  left, the artist said, “May I  ask you a question, Mrs. Klopman?” “Sure, go ahead,” she replied. “Well,” said  the artist, “painting the Klopman diamond was easy, but  I had a heck of  a time dreaming up all the other jewelry you wanted me  to add on. Tell  me, why did you want it?” A crafty gleam lit Mrs.  Klopman’s eyes as she explained, “because  when   I’m dead and my husband  brings the next Mrs. Klopman into this   house, I  want her to look at  my portrait and go crazy trying to find  all  that  stuff!”

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5. Spoonmaker’s Diamond

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The Spoonmaker’s Diamond the pride of the Topkapi Palace Museum and  its most valuable single exhibit as part of the Imperial Treasury, it  is an 86 carats (17 g) pear-shaped diamond.

Various stories are told about the Spoonmaker’s Diamond. According to  one tale, a poor fisherman in Istanbul empty-handed along  the shore when he found a shiny stone among the litter, which he turned  over and over not knowing what it was. After carrying it about in his  pocket for a few days, he stopped by the jewelers’ market, showing it to  the first jeweler he encountered. The jeweler took a casual glance at  the stone and appeared disinterested, saying “It’s a piece of glass,  take it away if you like, or if you like I’ll give you three spoons. You  brought it all the way here, at least let it be worth your trouble.”  What was the poor fisherman to do with this piece of glass? What’s more  the jeweler had felt sorry for him and was giving three spoons. He said  okay and took the spoons, leaving in their place an enormous treasure.  It is for this reason they say that the diamond’s name became the  “Spoonmaker’s Diamond”.

4. The Sancy Diamond

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55 Carats, it was cut in a pear shape and was first owned by Charles the  Bold, Duke of Burgundy, who lost it in battle in 1477. The stone is in  fact named after a later owner, Seigneur de Sancy, a French Ambassador  to Turkey in the late 16th century.  He loaned it to the French king,  Henry III who wore it in the cap with which he concealed his baldness.   Henry IV of France also borrowed the stone from Sancy, but it was sold  in 1664 to James I of England.  In 1688, James II, last of the Stuart  kings of England, fled with it to Paris.  It disappeared during the  French revolution.

3. The Great Star of Africa

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The Great Star of Africa a.k.a Cullinan diamond is the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found, at 3,106.75 carats (621.35 g), was discovered in 1905 in South Africa. It was named after the owner of  the mining company.
It was cut into 105 gems. Cullinan I, 530 carats is the largest of the  cuts and is know as the Great Star of Africa. In 1907 this diamond was  given to King Edward VII of England and set into the Royal Scepter. It  is kept, along with the other British Crown Jewels, in the Tower of  London

2. Darya-ye Noor Diamond

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The Darya-ye Noor “Ocean of Light”; weighing an estimated  182 carats (36 g). Its colour,  pale pink, is one of the rarest to be  found in diamonds. The Darya-ye  Noor presently forms part of the Iranian  Crown Jewels and is on display  at the Central Bank of Iran in Tehran.
n 1739, Nader Shah of  Persia invaded Northern India, occupied Delhi and  then massacred many  of its inhabitants. As payment for returning the  crown to the Mughal  emperor,  he took possession of the entire fabled treasury of  the  Mughals, including the Darya-i-noor, in addition to the  Koh-i-noor and the Peacock throne. All of these treasures were carried  to Iran  by Nader  Shah and the Darya-i-noor has remained there ever  since.

1. Koh-i-Noor Diamond

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The Kōh-i Nūr that means “Mountain of Light” is a 105 carat (21.6 g) diamond that was once the largest known diamond in the world. It is of great historical significance. It belonged to great Mughal Kingdom of Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent. Hindus, Mughals,  Persian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers  fought bitterly over it at  various points in history and seized it as a spoil of war time and  again. It was finally seized by the East India  Company and became part of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaimed  Empress of India in 1877.

sushi232

mak aihhhss...mmg sgt setuju ngan diamonds are 4ever...

HaMiZiE

memang cantikkkkkk

farahbatrisyia

wahhh... cantik.... i like Centenary Diamond   
gojesss sungguh...

AyamTogeL

andai ku dpt salah satunyer intan2 daripada pic diatas...akan ku pinang lisa surihani dgn intan tu & dgn bismillah... woahahahahaaa...

ajis_kg

andai ku dpt salah satunyer intan2 daripada pic diatas...akan ku pinang lisa surihani dgn intan tu & ...
AyamTogeL Post at 24-11-2011 20:49

   

itu berlian bang! ko ade sebijik tuh.. 10 org cam lisa surihani ko leh wat geli2 jer..{:4_181:}

moyas

hanja jauhari mengenal manikam. all looks good and lagend. But! I was only able to watch only

AyamTogeL

Reply 7# ajis_kg


    ek...berlian ek jis...huhuhu....tak yah 10 lah jis ek...1 jeee...yg c lisa surihani ori tu...dia lah yg pertama dan terakhir...
jis...awak tak nak ke?

ajis_kg

Reply  ajis_kg


    ek...berlian ek jis...huhuhu....tak yah 10 lah jis ek...1 jeee...yg c lisa  ...
AyamTogeL Post at 24-11-2011 21:34

   

kalu aku dapat berlian tuh.. sorilah.. usahkan lisa surihani.. nealofa pong aku x pandang

mdmyana

Kalau nampak dek ahkak pink, camner lah gamaknya???

aliaa

Kalau nampak dek ahkak pink, camner lah gamaknya???
mdmyana Post at 25-11-2011 13:25

    semua tu dia borong....

moon2103

Pandang jela....uhukkk

alinone78

berlian hak yg 2.4 mil x masuk sini gah?

haniryan

kesian pada yang menjadi mangsa ketamakan manusia utk memiliki berlian...salah seorangnya pakcik nelayan miskin yang jumpa spoonmaker's diamond

hAzEL^nut

hehe gojes.. tapi, aku ni bukan reti menilai sangat. tengok jela...santek..

SepetMataku

Reply 12# aliaa

kalo  ahkak pink borong, harus muflis malaysia ni.. hehehe

feeveer

cantik.....

micaeyda

cantiknyeeeee...

Siot_Jer

apa pasal berlian nih tak masuk carta
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