What are stars made of? Famous emeralds.
Nature is full of wonders, and this can be easily proved by the example of the gemstones, that mother Nature presents us lavishly. Explore the wonders of the most famous and beautiful emeralds in the world!
In the times of Spanish conquer of South America, in one of the temples on the territory of today Peru the conquistadors found an emerald as big, as an ostrich egg – that means the length of 16-18cm and the supposed weight of 3 kilos. The stone was considered an embodiment of the goddess, Umina by name, and was worshipped. The Spaniards did not manage to take the emerald, for the priests of the temple hid it carefully. The emerald hasn’t been found by now.
The biggest of all rough emeralds was mined in 1970 in Ukraine and called “Lenin Jubileeâ€. Its weight amounted to 5360g (26800K), and by the year 1990 it had been exhibited in the mine museum.
The State collection in Vienna disposes of a little vase (a bottle for cosmetics), that was carved between XVI-XVII centuries in Milan from an entire Columbian emerald. The height of the bottle is 10cm, and the weight of it makes up 536g (2681K). It is supposed, that this vase was used by Alexander Dumas as a prototype of Count Monte-Christo’s bonbonnière, made of a whole emerald.
A famous emerald with the name “Stolen†also has an interesting history. It was found in 1881 in North Carolina and had the weight of 1270K. The godsend was exhibited in Smithson institute museum – and stolen from it. Specialists agree, that now the emerald must be possessed by a private collectioner.
The Mogol emerald with the parameters of 5 x 3,8 x 3,5 cm and the weight of 217,8K is also worth mentioning. It was found in Columbia in XVII century, and after that it was, supposingly, bought by a Moslem leader and only in the 1980-s it appeared in the market again. The emerald resembles a rectangle with rounded corners, the front side of it is covered with fretwork, showing plant ornament, and on the back side one can see the carved text of a Moslem prayer and the date – 1695. The stone is pierced – probably, it was used as a turban decoration.
The Hermitage disposes of an emerald pendant of Spanish origin, made up in XVI and looking like a cross with five emeralds with a carvel applied to it. The hull of the carvel is carved from and emerald, probably a Columbian one, and has the weight of 125K.
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