The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-06-29
Jewels of Great Pcica.

l. Inc OflOH, OF Amsterdam, lJ4 ID
carats; latest price, $50, 900 rubles.
Cut in the old rhomboid shape, it forms
the extremity of the Russian scepter. 1t
came from the old mines of India, and is
said to have once formed one OF the ewes
OF the celebrated statue Of Sherioan in the
Temple Of Brahma. At later period it
was found, with another large diamond,
in the throne Of Shah Nadir of Persia.
When he was murdered it was stolen by Il
French grenadier, who fled with it to Nal
abar and sold it there to a ship-captain for
11,UOU thalers, and he handed it over to a
jew for 1000 thaiers. The jew sold it
at a greatly advanced price to the Armc-
nlan merchant Schatres, from whom the
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at Amsterdam, for $50, 900 rubles, an an
nuity of , 900 rubles and q diploma of no.
bility.
. The Regent or Pitt: 1876 81 carats g;
perfect diamond cut: value, 10000 900
thalers.
Among the French crown jewels 1t
came from the mines Of Pesteal, twenty
miles from Mazulipatam (Golconda, East
lndles), where it was found in 1902 by Il
slave, who, in order to conceal it, wound
ed himself in the leg and hid it under the
bandage. lie promised the stone to Il
sailor il, he would procure him his liberty
The sailor enticed him or board his ship,
took the stone, drowned the slave, sold
the diamond to the Governor of Fort St.
George, whose uame was Pitt, for II 900
squandered the money and hanged him.
self. 1t was purchased from Pitt in 17l7
by the then Regent Of France, the Duke
Of Orleans, for Louis Nv. its price being
$3.50. 900 francs. 1t weighed at that time
40 carets, and was atterWard cut and
polished in perfect diamond form, by
which. however it lost two-thirds of its
Size This operation took almost two
years, and cost y 900 thalers AS much
rs 8 900 thalers We're expended in diamond
dust, and the pieces broken off still had Il
value of $4,000 thaers. In 1892 it was
stolen, together with all the crown dia-
monds, at the plundering of the Tuleries,
and was lost sight Of for several years, un-
til, in an anonymous letter TO the Minister
Of Police at Paris, near the place of its
concealment in the Champs Elysees was
accurately described. 1t was actually
found there together with the rest of the
most valuable of the crown Jewels. (Prob-
ably the thief had become convinced that
it was dangerous for him to sell Jewels OF
such value) The Republic then pawned
it to the merchant Trescow in Berlin AZ
ter its redemption, it adorned the sword
of Napoleon |.
3, The Observation-Disclosures OF Light
106 l-16 carats; a fat oval diamond; be-
longs to the Queen of England; value,
800, 900 thalers.
Its history is lost in the darkness of In
dian tradition, and can be traced with GER
tainty only since the beginning of the
fourteenth century. 1t was for hundreds
of years the crown jewel of the Radschas
of Malwa, and was rightfully regarded as
taisman of sovereignty, because it was
always the booty the strongest conquer
or. In this manner, after it had frequent
ly changed owners in 1918 it came into
the possession ofthe ruler of Lahore, where
it was captured by the English in 1850, at
the rebellion of the Sikh troops. and pre-
sented to Queen Victoria 1t weighed at
that time 1876 1-16 carats, but it had been
50 awkwardly cut several years before
by the Venetian lapidary. IIortension
Borliio-that it produced little effect
(EXhibited in London in 1S51) Queen
Victoria had it newly cut by Herr Noors,
anger, the most sklliul workman in the
celebrated diamond cutting establishment
of Herr Costa, at Amsterdam. The work
was completed in 1852 in thirty eigh,
days
4 The Florentine or Tuscan. 1879 Il
carats; value, 700. 900 thalers; among the
treasures of the Emperor of Austria, pure
but Of a yellowish color; probably the
largest of the diamonds. lost by Charles
the Bold in the battle of Granson in 14GG
1t was found on the public road, in 6
casket, in which also lay costly pearl
At first the man scornfuliy threw away
the diamond. but then picked it up again
and sold it for tlorin to q clergyman anC
he sold it for three francs to the Bernese
Here it was purchased for 5000 tlorins by
the wealthy merchant prince, Bartholo
NEW May. Then Genoese purchased j
for a little more, and sold it for double tho
price to Ludivico Moro Sforza, Regent o
Milan. On the dispersion of the treasure
of Milan. Pope Julius III. procured it a
auction for 10000 ducats. 1t is in the I'm
perial Treasury at Vienna.
Rev. ii. w. Beecher's servant girl found
man trying to pry open the safe in hi
back parlor Friday morning and frighten
cd him oft. He had already captured
about 5000 worth of solid silver, which
had been presented to Beecher or some
member Of his family on various occa
sions.