The Tiffany diamond is a yellow diamond owned by the Tiffany Jewerly company. It is almost twice the size of the famous hope diamond. “Light flashes across the 82 facets of the Tiffany Diamond, highlighting the brilliance of the giant gem at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
One of the world’s largest yellow diamonds, the stone is on loan from Tiffany & Co., from Wednesday through Sept. 23. It joins such famed jewels as the Hope Diamond, Hooker Emerald and Oppenheimer Diamond.
The Tiffany Diamond weighs 128.54 carats and is in a cushion cut. Perched on it is a gem-encrusted bird known as the “Bird on a Rock,” designed in the early 1960’s by Jean Schlumberger. The bird is gold and platinum with white and yellow diamonds accented by a ruby eye….”
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