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Diamond ring bought for £10 at car boot sale could fetch £350,000 at auction.
A large diamond ring is expected to fetch £350,000 at auction, 30 years after it was purchased by the owner at a car boot sale for £10.00. The owner believed the “exceptionally sized” stone was costume jewellery when she bought it at West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, West London, in the 1980s. The owner was […]
Antique Roadshow guest discovers her family heirloom is worth £150,000.
A guest on BBC One’s Antique Roadshow was astonished to discover that her family heirloom was worth a staggering £150,000.00. The lady who brought the bracelet along to be assessed by Geoffrey Munn, the shows jewellery specialist, explained that she did not know where it came from, but that she had inherited the piece from […]
Pink Star Diamond to fetch $60 million at Sotheby’s auction.
A 59.60 carat pink diamond, named the Pink Star is to be auctioned in Hong Kong on April 4th, as part of Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction and is expected to fetch $60 million. The oval pink mixed cut diamond is the largest Internally Flawless, Fancy Vivid Pink diamond ever graded by GIA. The stone […]
Shirley Temple’s Blue Diamond Ring To Be Sold At Auction.
A fancy deep blue diamond ring that belonged to former child star Shirley Temple is to go up for auction next month and is expected to sell for $25-35 million at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels Sale in New York on the 19th April. Worn by ‘Amercia’s Little Darling’ throughout her life and bought by her father in […]
Father buys his seven year old daughter The Blue Moon Diamond for a world record £32 million.
Hong Kong’s sixth richest man Joseph Lau bought the rare 12.03 carat cushion shaped blue moon diamond for his seven year old daughter at Sotheby’s last week, and renamed it the“Blue Moon of Josephine” after her. It has also been confirmed that Mr Lau, was the anonymous buyer of the 16.08ct vivid pink diamond […]
Rare pink diamond sells for record £19m.
Auction house Christie’s has sold the largest vivid pink diamond to be offered at auction for a record 28.7m Swiss francs (£19m). The cushion-shaped vivid pink diamond, set a new world record for any vivid pink diamond at 16.08cts. The stone is set with a double row halo of pavé-set white diamonds and a third […]