Friday, May 18, 2018

Big prices for little rocks


By little rock, I mean diamonds.

A few of them went on sale recently.  I was not one of the buyers.

Farnese Blue diamond fetches $6.7m at Geneva auction

It's only 6.1 carats, but it is blue.

The Farnese Blue is a 6.16-carat, pear-shaped blue diamond given in 1715 to Elisabeth Farnese, wife of King Philip V of Spain.


















A couple of other big rocks were on sale, too.
"Sotheby's spring sale also included two D-color white diamonds discovered in Botswana. A 51.7-carat round-cut diamond ring sold for $9.2 million. A 50.4-carat oval-cut diamond went for $8.1 million."

Nice things to have if you can afford them.

Most of us can't.

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