Dresden green diamond — a pear-shaped diamond natural Apple-green color. The only major (41 carats, or 8.2 g) sample of diamond of this type. From the XVIII century is kept in the Dresden Treasury "Green vault" (it. Grünes Gewölbe — The "Grunes Gewolbe").
Since 1726 has survived a letter of a certain Baron Gautier, in which the proposal of the London merchant to sell rare green diamond of Saxony elector Augustus the Strong for 30 thousand pounds[1]. The naturalist Hans Sloane had a unique copy of the stone, indicating that the original was purchased by Londoner Marcus Moses in Golconda.
When the stone struck in Saxony, is not precisely known. According to some reports, stone was bought by the son of Augustus the Strong, Augustus III, at the Leipzig fair in 1742 through the Dutch intermediary for an amount estimated by historians in 400 thousand thalers[1]. "The price of the green almond-shaped stone was equal to the cost of construction of all the Dresden Cathedral"[2].
One of the Saxon jewelers (probably, Dinglinger) put the green diamond, along with two large white (6.3 to 19.3 carats) and 411 small — agraf hat headset for the elector. In such a frame of stone and has reached our days. After the Second world war he, along with other treasures of the Dresden was in the Soviet Union. He returned to Dresden in 1958.
In 2000 he exhibited in the United States. In 2006 he exhibited in the Moscow Kremlin the exhibition "Treasury Cabinet of August the Strong"[2].
Since 1726 has survived a letter of a certain Baron Gautier, in which the proposal of the London merchant to sell rare green diamond of Saxony elector Augustus the Strong for 30 thousand pounds[1]. The naturalist Hans Sloane had a unique copy of the stone, indicating that the original was purchased by Londoner Marcus Moses in Golconda.
When the stone struck in Saxony, is not precisely known. According to some reports, stone was bought by the son of Augustus the Strong, Augustus III, at the Leipzig fair in 1742 through the Dutch intermediary for an amount estimated by historians in 400 thousand thalers[1]. "The price of the green almond-shaped stone was equal to the cost of construction of all the Dresden Cathedral"[2].
One of the Saxon jewelers (probably, Dinglinger) put the green diamond, along with two large white (6.3 to 19.3 carats) and 411 small — agraf hat headset for the elector. In such a frame of stone and has reached our days. After the Second world war he, along with other treasures of the Dresden was in the Soviet Union. He returned to Dresden in 1958.
In 2000 he exhibited in the United States. In 2006 he exhibited in the Moscow Kremlin the exhibition "Treasury Cabinet of August the Strong"[2].