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Rare blue diamond sells for record $9.5 million
Reuters ^
| Wed May 13, 2009
| Stephanie Nebehay
Posted on 05/13/2009 9:15:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A flawless vivid blue diamond weighing 7.03 carats sold on Tuesday for a record 10.5 million Swiss francs (6.2 million pounds), the highest price paid per carat for any gemstone at auction, Sotheby's said.
The rectangular-shaped blue stone, the rarest to enter the international market this year, went to an anonymous buyer bidding by telephone after hectic bidding see-sawed between two callers for 15 minutes.
It was the centrepiece of its semi-annual sale in Geneva, conducted by David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby's jewellery department in Europe and the Middle East, who said the results showed the market's resilience despite the economic downturn.
"This is already a new world record price for a fancy vivid blue diamond and a new world record per carat for any gemstone (at auction)," Bennett told reporters.
"It is fantastic in this market and shows that these rare things are very much in demand," he said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bluediamond; diamonds; jewelry; jewels
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:20:16 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: nickcarraway
This thread is worthless without pictures. (If you guys can say it about beautiful women, we female freepers can say it about beautiful gemstones.)
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:20:26 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama! (If you're old enough, you'll understand the reference))
To: ottbmare
To: nickcarraway
gezzzzzzzzzz...I had a whole can of Blue Diamonds for less than 4 bucks...LOL
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:22:48 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: ottbmare
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:23:51 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: nickcarraway
That’s a pretty modest setting for that kind of stone.
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:27:24 PM PDT
by
Grammy
(It amazes me how much someone with character and integrity offends someone without.)
To: nickcarraway
Nothing I like better than jewelry porn, unless it’s architecture porn! Thanks for posting this.
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:41:52 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama! (If you're old enough, you'll understand the reference))
To: ottbmare
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:44:11 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: nickcarraway
The South African got 25 more just like that one.....in safe keeping.
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:46:43 PM PDT
by
TomasUSMC
( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
To: ottbmare
Well, looking at Jewels isn't immoral.
To: nickcarraway
A blue diamond has one atom of Boron...a yellow diamond has one atom of Benzine.
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posted on
05/13/2009 9:58:59 PM PDT
by
skimask
(When dealing with people who value death over life, traditional means of deterrence will not work)
To: nickcarraway
Don’t tell my wife. She thinks I’m going to buy it for her. I want to be the one to tell her that somebody beat me to it, but I was thinking of her.
To: nickcarraway
Man, that’s some expensive industrial abrasive...
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posted on
05/13/2009 10:09:36 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: nickcarraway; penelopesire; seekthetruth; April Lexington; lilylangtree; OL Hickory; Faith; ...
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posted on
05/13/2009 10:36:05 PM PDT
by
STARWISE
(They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
To: Grammy
I think maybe the idea was to let the stone speak for itself -
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posted on
05/13/2009 10:38:26 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Pray for our country...)
To: nickcarraway
Ha ha, I bet the guy got rooked - it’s really cubic zirconia.
To: Freedom4US
Don’t bet too much ........ ;)
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posted on
05/13/2009 10:41:41 PM PDT
by
STARWISE
(They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
To: Axenolith
Man, that’s some expensive industrial abrasive... Ah, but it's got just the right contaminants. LOL!
You can produce much more impressive results in the lab. Example:
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posted on
05/13/2009 10:47:58 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: STARWISE
I know you would win, but I'd arm rassel you for them...I alway had a fantasy of have a champagne glass full of cut unset diamonds...I think death will come first... When I was working as St Joseph hospital, on Christmas when Santa came to the cafeteria to ask us all what we wanted for Christmas, I told him a Champagne glass full of unset cut diamonds and he almost lost his beard laughing.
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