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Of course, a large part of what makes finding diamonds so appealing is the financial angle. Who among us doesn’t secretly hope that our jewelry box inheritance will yield a fabulously expensive find among all the costume jewels? This is exactly what happened recently to a woman in England, who – perhaps wisely – chose to remain anonymous. Meanwhile, her story carried across the globe. In the 1980s, the lucky lady purchased what was believed to be a fake diamond ring for the equivalent of $13 at a car boot sale in west London. Thirty years later, it was discovered that the ‘fake’ diamond was in fact a genuine, 26-carat cushion-shaped diamond from the 1800s. Sotheby’s originally estimated the value of the ring at $300,000-400,000, and it eventually sold at auction at Sotheby’s in London for a whopping $847,667!
How could the diamond have been so misunderstood for so long? According to experts, the diamond was cut in the 1800s, when cutting techniques were far less sophisticated than today. Modern diamond cutting is based on a range of advanced planning technologies that maximize the polished diamond’s sparkle and fire. Back then, primitive cutting techniques resulted in diamonds that were duller, even grayish in appearance. To the modern eye at the local car boot sale, this amazing rare gem seemed like a poor, fake reproduction. Now it has been discovered and sold to an international diamond trader. The diamond will probably be recut using the world’s best technologies, and the new diamonds that result will likely be valued at far more than the original antique diamond.
Perhaps the reason why the story captured the imagination of people all over the world is the secret wish we all have to be ‘that’ person. Or as the head of Sotheby’s jewelry department in London was quoted in the Evening Standard, “Anyone would be [excited] in this position, it’s a life-changing amount of money. No matter what your background is or what your past experiences have been, it’s going to revolutionise someone’s life.”
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When you lose something precious — then spend hours or days fruitlessly looking for it — it can feel as if the universe swallowed it. But sometimes, the universe surprises you.
After my columns last week on things lost and things found — dog tags and a diamond ring, respectively — I asked readers to share their stories of memorable reunions.
For years, Clara Graves wore a diamond-and-ruby ring she and her husband, Ron Freudenheim, created as a copy of her great grandmother’s engagement ring. “For us it symbolized the past, present and future,” wrote Clara, of Silver Spring, Md.
Clara doesn’t wear her rings at night, preferring to keep them in a small decorative box.
“One night I took them off while still in the kitchen,” she wrote. “I walked to the bedroom with them in my left hand, jingling them as I walked, and put them in that little box. The next morning all the rings but the ruby and diamond ring were there.”
Clara tore the house apart looking for it. No luck. Ten years later, she was purging old financial records that were kept in a brown accordion folder.
“After shredding the lot, I picked up the folder to see if I’d missed anything,” Clara wrote. “There was the lost ring!”
I wonder if it was filed under D for “diamond” or R for “ring.”
The ring that Millie Hurlbut lost was her mother’s engagement ring. It flew off Millie’s finger when she grabbed the collar of her Rottweiler, Max, as the dog was racing to the front door to bark at some boys who were toilet-papering her daughter’s boyfriend’s car.