Diamonds worth nearly a ton of gold 70 years ago! If you want to say second, there is no first in the world!
Whether it is value, legend, perfection, it is unparalleled in the world!
Even the rings of the world-famous "Lord of the Rings Trilogy" created a strange "lord of the ring" based on the magic of diamonds.
500 years ago, an old man in India passed by an abandoned mine and caught a glimpse of a shining stone, and after he picked it up and identified it, it was a huge blue diamond!
The old man asked the craftsman to roughen the blue diamond and obtain a 112.5 carat blue diamond.
After the old man's death, the legendary journey of diamonds begins...
1. His 3 sons fought for the diamond, and no one got it.
2. The blue diamond was confiscated by the patriarch and embedded in the forehead of the idol.
3, the night is dark and windy, a young man can not resist the temptation and steals the blue diamond.
A few hours later, he was caught by the Brahmins and beaten to death, becoming the first to die for the Blue Diamond.
4. In the 17th century, a French missionary killed 2 diamond guardians and took the blue diamond for himself.
5, the missionary brought the blue diamond back to his hometown, but one stormy night, he was cut in the throat, and the blue diamond disappeared.....
6, 40 years later, the blue diamond appeared, this time fell into the hands of the Parisian jeweler Tever, who immediately sold it to King Louis XIV of France, and then went to Russia to do business, and was bitten alive by a wild dog.
7. As a result, Louis XIV's favorite grandson died mysteriously, and he died soon after...
8. The Blue Diamond fell into the hands of Princess Belle, who was beaten to death by a group of commoners during a fortuitous incident in 1792.
9. The blue diamond was stolen by the bodyguard Carlotti, and the French Provisional Government wanted it, and Kylotti committed suicide insanity.
10, another 40 years later, the blue diamond reached the hands of the Russian prince Ivan, transferred to the red face, the prince had a new love, killed the old love who refused to give back, and retrieved the blue diamond.
11. However, Ivan the Prince of Russia, subsequently died mysteriously.
12, after the death of Crown Prince Ivan, the blue diamond fell into the hands of Empress Catherine I, in order to avoid bad luck, ask the first-class master, The Holland's Fowles, to take the essence from the essence, leaving only 45.52 carats, each side shining with dazzling blue light.
However, his son and Diamond are missing, he is unable to make a deal with the Empress, and commits suicide by taking poison...
13, the blue diamond was indeed stolen by the son who could not resist the temptation, brought to London, England, after selling 90,000 US dollars, he died inexplicably...
14, the diamond was bought by the jeweler Philip, because of the ominous encounter of the blue diamond, specially named "Hope", but still could not escape the doom, in 1839 died violently.
15, this is a rare good death - Philip's nephew Houpu inherited the "Hope" blue diamond.
Hoppe did the opposite, placing the blue diamond in the exhibition hall for public exhibition, and got a good ending.
16. After Hoppe grew old, Washington's millionaire Maclean and his wife bought the "Hope" blue diamond, and the disaster followed, and their sons and daughters were killed one after another.
17, 1947, had to sell the diamond, the buyer is Winston, spent 1.1 million US dollars, and donated to the Smithsonian Museum in the United States, the bad luck brought by the blue diamond, to end.
This diamond is the famous star of hope.
In 1947, the US dollar was still pegged to gold, an ounce of gold for 35 US dollars, 1 US dollar can buy 0.81 grams of gold, this price, close to a ton of gold!
Today, diamonds are valued at $250 million!
