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Colored Gemstones On Display In New York City.

A collection exhibiting the world's rarest natural color diamonds has been extended at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.


The Olympia Diamond Collection is comprised of five diamonds in the - blue-green, orange-yellow, purplish-pink, blue and orange. Each has been independently examined and graded by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) as 'vivid', the highest level of color saturation possible.


These diamonds range in size from 1.01 carats to 2.34 carats and represent five of the strongest colors that naturally occur in a diamond.


For example, the Scarselli 1.71 carat heart-cut, natural red color diamond is the largest one in the world,graded by the GIA as a fancy red , and has an estimated value of some $10 million!


Posted by Barry Gutwein on March 17, 2010 3:04 PM in Precious Gemstones | Comments (0)

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