The Programa Royal Collections The Programa Royal Collections based in Madrid, Spain, contains one of the most comprehensive and unique collections of gems and minerals ever assembled, that includes all varieties and classes, besides other collections such as precious metal and gemstone artwork and sculptures both current as well as ancient, a collection of gem-encrusted […]
Category Archives: Emeralds
Jewelry of the Maharajahs were symbols of status and power The Maharajah Jamsahib of Nawanagar, Shri Kumar Ranjithsinhji Vibhaji Jadega (1872-1933) was a connoisseur and collector of gems and jewelry and had a fabulous collection of jewelry, some inherited from his ancestors and others designed and executed during his life time by Jacques Cartier, with […]
Emerald Carving an Ancient Art of the Indians of Central and South America (Mesoamerica) The “Emerald Man” is an artifact in the form of a small stone figurine, representing a male human figure, carved out of a single green emerald crystal, believed to be the oldest known Mesoamerican (middle American) emerald and the only known […]
Origin of name The Mughal emerald is a magnificent historic carved emerald, belonging to the period of the last of the four great Mughal Emperors of India, Aurangzeb who reigned between 1658 and 1707. The table-cut emerald, with two rectangular flat faces, with dimensions of 5.2 cm by 4.0 cm, and a thickness of 1.2 […]
Origin of name The abbreviation NAEM stands for the “North American Emerald Mine,” which obviously refers to the mine of origin of the enormous 1,869-carat elongated hexagonal emerald crystal, the largest ever emerald discovered in North America, in the year 2003. The North American Emerald Mine created history in 1998, when a significant pocket of […]
Origin of name The Norwegian Parure, which is part of the Norwegian Crown Jewels, set with lovely dark and rich green emeralds that probably originated in the Muzo or Somondoco emerald mines in Colombia, has a rich history and provenance associated with it. The Parure was said to have been originally owned by Empress Josephine, […]
Origin of name The 632-carat natural uncut emerald of Colombian origin gets its name from the daughter of the mine owner in Chivor, in the southeastern region of the Colombian emerald belt, high up in the Andes Mountains, where the rare bi-hexagonal crystal was discovered, in the year 1920. Chivor and Muzo emerald mines are […]
Origin of name The origin of the name “Queen Victoria’s Emerald and Diamond” Tiara is self explanatory, as the celebrated tiara was once the valued possession of Queen Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Empress of India, whose long period of reign of 63 years and 7 […]
Origin of name The Sacred Emerald Buddha is one of the largest carved emeralds in the world, sculptured and presented to the world in the year 2006, by its owners Primagem, a Thailand-based company, founded by an American gemstone dealer Jeffrey Bergman. The origin of the name Sacred Emerald Buddha is self explanatory, as the […]
Origin of name The origin of the name “Spanish Inquisition Necklace” seems to be shrouded in mystery just as much as the origin of the necklace itself. According to Jeffrey Post, the curator of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, it was Harry Winston who gave the necklace the interesting name […]