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Uploaded by on Jul 22, 2008

A story on the most famous diamonds in the world at Tiffany's. Footage from this film is available for licensing from http://www.globalimageworks.com

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  • @MrAkihiros I have a kit very similar to this. Its not as extensive, though, I think mine is one column of stones narrower. Also, I run a website dealing with famous diamonds.

    CZ hadn't been invented yet so if you wanted to cut replicas you had to use quartz crystal or leaded glass. Some instructions even called for citrine for the yellow/yellowish diamonds, and syn. blue spinel or syn. sapphire for the Hope. Lapidary Journal's '60s replica series calls for fluorite for the Dresden Green (!)

  • @ragemanchoo82 Wow and you can see that in the small screen.

  • I like the color of the second diamond from the right on the first row. 0:18

  • @kennnmoran i agree

  • Glass replicas at best, the movie started with 'every famous diamonds represented in this case' and never would all the biggest be at the one place, in that brief case at the one time.

  • is that true? that there is a diamond so big the man is holding it in two hands? i know this is for the movie, and these are pretend, but the biggest i ever heard of is the hope diamond. from the eye of an idol? that sounds like a movie script/

  • Oops I forgot! mean they look like crystals or lead glass.

  • Whoever filmed this for Tiffanys mixed up the replicas. The replica shown as the Orloff is actually the Great Mogul, which was a similar but much larger stone. Their Koh-I-Noor replica looks more like the Star of the South replicas I see in old illustrations, i.e. cigarette cards and books. When they show what they call the Star of the South, a pear-shaped diamond is shown. The real S. of the South is a cushion. The pear shown is most a likely replica of the 47-carat Star of South Africa.

  • They didn't have CZ in the 1930s so I'm betting it was leaded glass.

  • they look like CZ to me...

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