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||17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| A history of great diamonds and their possessors|By ealovitt|Romantically-inclined historians and lovers of rare and costly diamonds will enjoy the stories in Ian Balfour's "Famous Diamonds." These gems lead endlessly fascinating lives, often touched by tragedy. For instance, the Emperor Maximilian Diamond was worn by its owner when he was executed by firing squad in Mexic|About the Author|Ian Balfour was educated at Eton and served in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1945; he later read modern languages and music at Magdalen College, Oxford. For almost 30 years he worked in various capacities in the diamond industry, latterly as cons
The history of great diamonds is intimately interwoven with the lives of emperors and conquerors, great kings and queens, with statesmen and soldiers, the rich and worldly - but also, inevitably, with those who lead more shadowy lives. They have been objects of passion, sometimes of war, violence and theft. As well as being objects of exceptional beauty and rarity, they were once thought to possess magical properties which protected their owners from enemies. Initially ...
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