Here's a fieldmouse taking a drink from an icicle in a garden in Fosters Booth, Northamptonshire:
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As featured in today's Metro London newspaper ...
"Bling" vids:
1. Hope Diamond put on display "naked"
2. HM the Queen talking about the Imperial State Crown (the one I'd nick if I robbed the crown jewels) ... this is quite something
Whose diamond is this? (Shown very nicely here: most diamond photographs (I think) transfer very little of the stones' brilliance to the printed page...)
What's it called? What's the cut? How many carats?
![](http://www.pricescope.com/idealbb/files/krupp-diamond.jpg)
My Original Bling Quiz is STILL OPEN! so come on ANSWERS PLEASE!!
This belongs to Liz Taylor, and is known as the Krupp diamond. I believe it is her favourite gem, bought for her by hubby Richard Burton. She used to wear it all the time! How scarey... It weighs a whopping 33.19 carats and is emerald cut, or more precisely, Asscher cut. Gorgeous...though I prefer pear cut. :o)
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It is really nice. Love the field mouse photo.
ReplyDeleteI really like that Krupp diamond. It was said to have belonged to Vera Krupp, the wife of a munitions manufacturer in Nazi Germany ... The asscher cut suits a quality stone of no colour, I think. I'm not so sure it would look so good on something like the Hope Diamond, which I would really like to see close up, as it appears to be the same colour as a large body of water ~ e.g. a mysterious glacial lake... or something
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