@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 (!)
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/
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.
@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 6 months ago
@ragemanchoo82 Wow and you can see that in the small screen.
MrAkihiros 6 months ago
I like the color of the second diamond from the right on the first row. 0:18
Jetli2008 1 year ago
@kennnmoran i agree
Twin2Fly 1 year ago
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.
kennnmoran 1 year ago
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/
bettygoodbody 2 years ago
Oops I forgot! mean they look like crystals or lead glass.
GolcondaIndia 3 years ago
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.
ragemanchoo82 3 years ago
They didn't have CZ in the 1930s so I'm betting it was leaded glass.
ragemanchoo82 3 years ago
they look like CZ to me...
GolcondaIndia 3 years ago