Vicissitudes
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…