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The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC is home to so much that's rare and fantastic in the world. One of the more spectacular collections is the collection of gems in the Museum of Natural History.
There you can see glorious crystals and minerals in their natural form, as well as some of the most superb pieces of jewelry ever made. There are crowns worn by royalty, gigantic diamond earrings worn by the condemned French queen Marie-Antoinette.
They're all stunning and grand, but nothing is more mysterious than the rare earth-green of the emerald. The Smithsonian is home to the most fabulous emeralds ever known, and we are incredibly lucky to have them in this country.
One doesn't normally associate pretty jewelry with the time of the Spanish Inquisition. But in the Smithsonian Institution's collection of gems, there's an exquisite necklace holder stand and a necklace badge holder of diamonds and emeralds.
It's a spectacular double row of diamonds and emeralds ending in a candelabrum of emeralds. There is unfortunately little info about the provenance of these necklace holders. The massive diamonds and Columbian emeralds were most likely cut in India in the 17th century.
This would make them one of the earliest examples of cut gemstones in the Smithsonian's Collection. There are really only legends surrounding this wall necklace holder display stand were used in this era. They indicate that it was worn at times by Spanish and French royalty.
In the early 20th century, it was purchased by the Maharajah of Indore, whose son sold the necklace in 1947 to Harry Winston. Winston afterwards sold the necklace to Mrs. Cora Hubbard Williams of Pittsburgh. She gave it to the Smithsonian in 1972.
Emeralds are a form of crystal known as beryls. Beryls are typically clear crystals, but when incorporating chromium or vanadium, they attain numerous gradations of green. The purest green is the rarest emeralds and many people essentially prefer an emerald which has a blue-green tint.
Before the 16th century, the only known emerald deposits were in Cleopatra's Egyptian mines. But after emeralds were discovered in Columbia, those became the gold standard in emeralds.
Columbian emeralds have been discovered by archaeologists among artifacts of such clans as the Inca, Maya, Aztec, Toltec and the lesser-known Chibcha Indians. Emeralds are among the most rare of gemstones and can be costlier per carat than even the best diamonds!
They seem to be a hard mineral, with a Moh's hardness scale of seven or eight ( compared against a diamond's ten ). While most emeralds are found in Africa and Russia, there have been findings of emerald deposits in North Carolina!
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