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Ch. 10: The Famous Austrian Yellow Diamond

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220                   THE AUSTRIAN YELLOW.
much larger yellow diamond. Tradition relates that it was bought for a few pence in the market at Florence, under the impression that it was a piece of glass ! If this is so, one would be glad of some particulars of the moment when the happy possessor found out his mistake.
Tavernier says that " the Grand Duke (of Tuscany) did him the honor to show him the
diamond several times." He made a drawing of it, as he did of nearly all the large diamonds he saw, and his estimation of its value is two millions of livres (about four hundred thousand dollars) — a low price considering the size of the stone ; but no doubt its yellow tinge had something to
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