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220 THE AUSTRIAN YELLOW.
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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
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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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