Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered ...

According to The London Express a telegram has been received in Paris stating that Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector and merchant, who formerly owned the famous blue Hope diamond ...

Yes! A diamond, which goes by the name of the Hope Diamond, was once in Indian hands. With a mesmerizing weight of 45.52 carats, the deep blue diamond, named the Hope Diamond has a breathtaking ...

Chip Clark / NMNH, SI At first, Evalyn Walsh McLean, an heiress living in Washington, D.C., didn’t want to buy the Hope Diamond. She was unhappy with the setting surrounding the precious blue ...