Necklace Green
2011
Necklace Holders Dating As Far Back As The Royals In Spain
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC is home to so much that’s rare and smashing in the world.The collection of gems is a spectacular sight in the Museum of Natural History.
There you can see wonderful crystals and minerals in their natural form, as well as some of the most incredible pieces of jewellery ever made. There are crowns worn by royalty, enormous diamond earrings worn by the cursed French queen Marie-Antoinette.
They’re all stunning and awe-inspiring, but nothing is more mysterious than the rare earth-green of the emerald. The Smithsonian is home to the most great emeralds ever known, and we’re incredibly fortunate 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 is a spectacular double row of diamonds and emeralds ending in a chandelier of emeralds. There is sadly little information about the provenance of these necklace holders. The large diamonds and Columbian emeralds were most likely cut in India in the 17th century.
This makes them a very early example of cut gems in the Smithsonian' Collection. There are truly only legends surrounding this wall necklace holder display stand were used in this era.They indicate that at times it was worn by the French and the Spaniards 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. Hubbard Cora Williams of Pittsburgh. She left it to the Smithsonian in 1972.
Emeralds are a type of crystal known as beryls. Beryls are normally clear crystals, but when infused with chromium or vanadium, they attain various gradations of green. The purest green is the rarest emeralds and many of us essentially prefer an emerald which has a blue-green tint.
Before the 16th century, the sole known emerald deposits were in Cleopatra’s Egyptian mines. But after emeralds were found in Columbia, those became the gold standard in emeralds.
Columbian emeralds have been discovered by archaeologists among artifacts of such tribes as the Inca, Maya, Aztec, Toltec and the lesser-known Chibcha Indians. Emeralds are among the rarest of gemstones and can be dearer per carat than even the finest diamonds!
They are definitely a hard mineral, with a Moh’s toughness scale of seven or eight ( compared against a diamond’s 10 ). While most emeralds are found in Africa and Russia, there were findings of emerald deposits in North Carolina!
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