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Ch. 26: The Tavernier Blue, A Precious Color in Diamonds

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XXVI.
THE TAVERNIER  BLUE DIAMOND.
A Precious Colour in Diamonds—"D'un Beau Violet"— Famous Mines in History and Tradition—Misfortune follows Tavernier—The Old Idea of Great Diamonds being Unlucky—One Stone with a Treble History.
 
 

 
 
HIS stone is described as "D'un beau violet," and at once attracts the atten­tion of every connoisseur. There are diamonds of a  blue sapphire hue, and one of a ruby red, which are of high value ; there are also green, white olive, black, yellow, and fire-coloured ; but the red and blue are the rarest of all natural pro­ductions. An affluent of the Coleroon somewhat north of the Palqhat Pass in the South-Western Ghauts is said to be the locality where this unique specimen was found.
It must strike students as very wonderful that the places in which great diamonds were said to be discovered are not the extensive mines at the base of the Neela-Mulla mountains, in the vicinity of the Krishna and Pomart rivers, where a hundred thousand miners, labourers, and merchants dwelt in the time of Methold ; nor the mines of Golconda, described by Jean Baptiste Tavernier ; nor those of Raulconda; rior the Gani or Coloor, seven days journey from the same capital, where, in Tavernier's time, sixty thousand labourers were at work, and where, we are
 
 

 
     
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