Document: Hope Diamond

Question: where did the hope diamond get its name
Short answer: a London banking family called Hope in
Answer: The jewel is believed to have originated in India, where the original ( larger ) stone was purchased in 1666 by French gem merchant Jean - Baptiste Tavernier as the Tavernier Blue. The Tavernier Blue was cut and yielded the French Blue ( Le bleu de France ), which Tavernier sold to King Louis XIV in 1668. Stolen in 1791, it was recut, with the largest section acquiring its `` Hope '' name when it appeared in the catalogue of a gem collection owned by a London banking family called Hope in 1839. After going through numerous owners, it was sold to Washington socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean who was often seen wearing it. It was purchased in 1949 by New York gem merchant Harry Winston, who toured it for a number of years before giving it to Washington 's National Museum of Natural History in 1958, where it has since remained on permanent exhibition.

Question: where is the hope diamond located in the smithsonian
Short answer: a rotating pedestal inside a cylinder made of 3 - inch ( 76 mm ) thick bulletproof glass in its own display room, adjacent to the main exhibit of the National Gem Collection, in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals.
Answer: When the Smithsonian 's gallery was renovated in 1997, the necklace was moved onto a rotating pedestal inside a cylinder made of 3 - inch ( 76 mm ) thick bulletproof glass in its own display room, adjacent to the main exhibit of the National Gem Collection, in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals. The Hope Diamond is the most popular jewel on display and the collection 's centerpiece. In 1988, specialists with the Gemological Institute of America graded it and noticed `` evidence of wear '' and its `` remarkably strong phosphorescence '' with its clarity `` slightly affected by a whitish graining which is common to blue diamonds. '' A highly sensitive colorimeter found tiny traces of a `` very slight violet component '' which is imperceptible to normal vision.

Question: which famous gem was said to have been stolen from a hindu statue
Short answer: the Hope Diamond was
Answer: According to specious accounts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the original form of the Hope Diamond was stolen from an eye of a sculpted statue of the goddess Sita, the wife of Rama, the seventh Avatar of Vishnu. However, much like the `` curse of Tutankhamun '', this general type of `` legend '' was most likely the invention of Western authors during the Victorian era, and the specific legends about the Hope Diamond 's `` cursed origin '' were invented in the early 20th century to add mystique to the stone and increase its sales appeal as well as increase newspaper sales. It fueled speculation that humans possessing the gemstone were fated to have bad luck with varying reports of undetermined veracity. A report in 2006 in The New York Times, however, suggested that `` any hard evidence linking it to tragedy has yet to be officially proven. ''

Question: where was the hope diamond found and where is it now
Short answer: in India,
Answer: The jewel is believed to have originated in India, where the original ( larger ) stone was purchased in 1666 by French gem merchant Jean - Baptiste Tavernier as the Tavernier Blue. The Tavernier Blue was cut and yielded the French Blue ( Le bleu de France ), which Tavernier sold to King Louis XIV in 1668. Stolen in 1791, it was recut, with the largest section acquiring its `` Hope '' name when it appeared in the catalogue of a gem collection owned by a London banking family called Hope in 1839. After going through numerous owners, it was sold to Washington socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean who was often seen wearing it. It was purchased in 1949 by New York gem merchant Harry Winston, who toured it for a number of years before giving it to Washington 's National Museum of Natural History in 1958, where it has since remained on permanent exhibition.