World famous dimond

1. Incorporated into the Crown Jewels are stones cut from the magnificent Cullinan Diamond – the largest diamond ever found.  

The stone was discovered near Pretoria in South Africa on 26 January 1905, and is named after the chairman of the mining company, Thomas Cullinan.  In its uncut state, it weighed 3,106 metric carats and boasted a size of 10.1 x 6.35 x 5.9 cm.  This scale, coupled with its

made it the most celebrated diamond in the world.

2.blue dimond Blue diamonds are extremely rare, but by no means the rarest of the fancy coloured diamonds.  The most rare diamonds are red, green, purple and orange, then pink and blue diamond.

3. The Koh-i-Noor also spelt Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur, is one of thelargest cut diamonds in the world, weighing 105.6 carats It is part of the British crown jewels

Possibly mined in Kollur mine India, during the period of the kakatiya dynasty, there is no record of its original weight – but the earliest well-attested weight is 186 old carats (191 metric carats or 38.2 g). It was later acquired by Delhi sultan alauddian khalji. The diamond was also part of the Mughal peacock throne. It changed hands between various factions in south and west Asia, until being ceded to Oueen victoria after the British annesation of the Punjab in 1849, during the reign of eleven-year-old emperor Maharaja duleeo singh under the shadow influence of the British ally gulab singh the 1st maharaja of jammu and kashmir who had previously been in possession of the stone.

4. spelled Darya-ye Noor, is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing an estimated 182 carats Its colour, pale pink, is one of the rarest to be found in diamonds. The diamond is currently in the iranian crown jewels collection of the central bank of iran in tehran