{"id":2749,"date":"2021-01-18T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2022-08-31T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:23:42","slug":"famous-diamonds-the-star-of-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/famous-diamonds-the-star-of-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous diamonds: The Star of the South"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Star of the South<\/em> was discovered in 1853 in\u00a0<\/strong>Brazil<\/a>\u00a0and is a type IIa diamond. With\u00a0<\/strong>clarity<\/a>\u00a0of VS-2, a light pinkish brown\u00a0<\/strong>color<\/a>\u00a0and 128,48\u00a0<\/strong>carats<\/a>. It was displayed in several exhibitions all over the world, mainly in London and Paris, which improved its status greatly.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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History of The Star of the South<\/h4>\n

In 1853, a 261,88-carat diamond was discovered in the Bagagem Diamond Mines in Brazil<\/a>. An enslaved woman made the discovery and was rewarded her freedom and a life income for her honesty. This sort of rewards was given to honest mineworkers upon discovery of diamonds of reasonable size. Severe punishments were given to dishonest workers.<\/p>\n

The diamond had many different owners before it was cut to a 128,48-carat stone by Royal Coster Diamonds Amsterdam<\/a>. The cut was cushion-shaped and was given the name Star of the South<\/em> by Halphen & Associates, who in their turn sold it to Mulhar Rao, the Gaekwar of Baroda; the ruling prince of Baroda at the time. The Gaekwar used the Star of the South, also known as Estrela do Sul, in a necklace, specially made to show off the Star of the South and another diamond, the 78,5-carat English Dresden.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Star of the South was discovered in 1853 in\u00a0Brazil\u00a0and is a type IIa diamond. With\u00a0clarity\u00a0of VS-2, a light pinkish brown\u00a0color\u00a0and 128,48\u00a0carats. It was displayed in several exhibitions all over the world, mainly in London and Paris, which improved its status greatly. History of The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamant-museum-amsterdam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7132,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/7132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}