Precious Stones: Their History and Mystery

Nine chapters on what people have believed about jewels — the charms and the poisons, the chaplet of pearls, the ecclesiastical treasuries, and the great robberies they invited.

Vicissitudes

12 pages in this part of History and Mystery of Precious Stones.

Vicissitudes

FROM the period of the Plantagenet rule to the close of the Stuarts, the CROWN JEWELS experienced strange vicissitudes, and were repeatedly…

Vicissitudes: Richard

Edward III., pledged his crown and jewels to the merchants of Flanders, in the seventeenth year of his reign, to supply his expenses in the…

Vicissitudes: Henry

The salt of gold pledged by Richard III. is probably the same as that described in the inventory of the regalia and gold plate of Henry…

Vicissitudes: Malwa

Strange have been the vicissitudes attending the KOH-I-NOOR, with this peculiarity--that its history can be well authenticated at every…

Vicissitudes: Mohammed

On the fall of Shahrukh (? 1783), Ahmed Shah had allowed him to reside at Meshed, and govern it and the surrounding district. Thousands of…

Vicissitudes: Sanci

Several stories are told of the SANCI diamond celebrated for its rare beauty and size, weighing 33 12/16 carats, and for a long time an…

Vicissitudes: Shafras

Some years afterwards, however, the eldest brother met the Afghan by chance at Bagdad, where he had sold the jewels for a sum of 65,000…

Vicissitudes: Regent

These reports, however, never obtained much credit, though they were loud enough to reach the ears of the person against whom they were…

Vicissitudes: French

It was considered the largest diamond in Europe, weighing in the rough 410 carats. To cut it into a perfect brilliant occupied two years…

Vicissitudes: Motte

The necklace was delivered to the cardinal February 1st, 1785, by the court jewellers; the price paid for it was one million six hundred…

Vicissitudes: Derry

Songs and epigrams on the diamond were passed about in all societies, and others, of a less refined character, were sung about the streets…

Vicissitudes: Minas

The official account of the diamond exploitation in Brazil was that of D. Lourenco de Almeida, the first governor of Minas Geraes (Aug…

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