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Necklace Holders Dating As Far Back As The Royals In Spain

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC is home to such a lot that’s rare and smashing in the world.One of the most terrific collection is the bundle 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 created.  There are crowns worn by royalty, giant 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 lovely emeralds ever known, and we’re incredibly fortunate to have them in this country.

One doesn’t usually associate pretty jewelry with the time of the Spanish Inquisition.  But in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of gems, there is an exquisite necklace holder stand and a necklace badge holder of diamonds and emeralds.

It’s a impressive double row of diamonds and emeralds ending in a candelabrum of emeralds.  There’s sadly very little information about the provenance of these necklace holders.  The giant diamonds and Columbian emeralds were most likely cut in India in the 17th century.

This makes them an early example of gems that are cut from the Smithsonian's Collection.  There are really only legends surrounding this wall necklace holder display stand were used in this era.It indicates that it has been worn by the French and Spanish royalty.

In the early 20th century, it was purchased by the Maharajah of Indore, whose boy sold the necklace in 1947 to Harry Winston.  Winston afterwards sold the necklace to Mrs. Pittsburgh's Hubbard Cora Williams. She gave it to the Smithsonian in 1972.

Emeralds are a type of crystal known as beryls.  Beryls are usually clear crystals, but when infused with chromium or vanadium, they reach various gradations of green.  The purest green is the rarest emeralds and many people really prefer an emerald that has a blue-green tint.

Before the 16th century, the only 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 most rare of gemstones and can be more expensive per carat than even the best diamonds!

They are a hard mineral, with a Moh’s hardness scale of 7 or eight ( compared with a diamond’s ten ).  While most emeralds are found in Africa and Russia, there were discoveries of emerald deposits in North Carolina!

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