The Great Diamonds of the World

The Braganza, the Matan, the Nizam, the Koh-i-Noor — the great diamonds one by one, with the thefts, sieges, sales and swindles that carried each of them across the world.

The Braganza

3 pages in this part of The Great Diamonds of the World.

The Braganza

The Largest Reported Diamond extant--The Romantic Story of its Discovery--Guarded as a Treasure of Portugal--Another Version of its Strange…

The Braganza: Mawe

This passage presents considerable difficulty, for Mawe nowhere says he had ever even seen, much less examined, the stone; nor is it easy…

The Braganza: Murray

Murray tells us on the authority of a Mr. Magellan, that "a fragment was broken off from it by the ignorance of the person who found it…

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