Jewellery Insides

❄️ Grand Antique in Boucheron’s ’’Or Bleu’’? 🧊 🫶🏻 Did anyone recognise the Grand Antique marble in Boucheron’s ’’Or Bleu’’ High Jewellery Collection? Here it is! - The Banquise ring features Grand Antique marble with a 2.01 ct, E-colour, VVS1m pear-shaped diamond surrounded by 5.08 ctw, D-colour, internally flawless diamonds. 🫳🏻 Let’s just remind, Grand Antique marble, also called ’’Celtic marble’’ (Latin: marmor celticum), Grand Antique of Aubert or Marmor Aquitanicum, is a special type of marble valued for its unique mix of black limestone and white calcite, formed during geological changes at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago. This marble is found near Aubert-Moulis, along the Lez River valley from Castillon-en-Couserans to Saint-Girons, in the foothills of the Pyrenees in France. 🫴🏻 The Romans first quarried this marble in the third or fourth century, and it has been used in historically famous monuments such as Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the Tomb of Napoleon in Les Invalides in Paris, the enter in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City etc... 🙌🏻 Boucheron freshly, introduced to the world ‘’Or Bleu’’ collection, drawing inspiration from the elemental beauty of water, waves, seas, waterfalls, and icebergs, under the creative direction of Claire Choisne. The Banquise ring, crafted in the French Maison Boucheron with Grand Antique marble from 🇫🇷, is just one of 26 jewels in the collection, that captures the raw beauty of nature. #Boucheron #HighJewellery #OrBleu #DiamondRing #LuxuryEducation

The Grape Leaves Emerald Brooch 👑 🌿A deep green, table-cut Colombian emerald with a slight bluish tint, weighing 136.25-carats, adorns a diamond brooch from the second quarter of the 19th century, which belonged to Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, the wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. The elegant diamond frame is 6-fold symmetrically decorated grape leaves, interspersed with old-cut white diamonds. It is believed that the emerald was discovered in the Middle Ages and kept in one of Colombia's temples before being taken to Europe by conquistadors. 🇨🇴 🪙 This brooch is part of the Gokhran Diamond Fund collection. Gokhran, an acronym derived from the Russian title "State Institution on Formation of the State Fund of Precious Metals and Precious Stones of the Russian Federation, Storage, Release and Use of Precious Metals and Precious Stones," traces its history back to the Tsar's Rentery, established by a decree of Peter the Great on December 11 (22), 1719. This decree laid the foundation for the official state system responsible for safeguarding Russia's treasures and valuables. 🇷🇺 📷The Grape Leaves Emerald Brooch © Gokhran Diamond Fund Collection of Russian Federation. #Emerald #Jewellery #JewelleryHistory #Gemstones

The Empress Tourmaline Fruit 🍓 🍉If your first association with tourmalines is watermelon, you might want to reconsider! Here we present an exceptional jewel: a tourmaline resembling a berry with a fascinating history. This raspberry-pink tourmaline in unusual shape is highlighted by green enamel leaves set against a gold background. Weighing 260.86-carats and measuring 4x2.7x2.3 cm, this gemstone is believed to be originated from Burma.   📜 The jewel was once part of the treasury of King Rudolf II of Bohemia, inherited from his sister, the widow of French King Charles IX. In 1648, during the war with the Swedes, the gem was captured in Prague and taken to Scandinavia, where it was given to Queen Christina. After her death, the gem was moved to Stockholm. In 1777, during his visit to Saint Petersburg, Swedish King Gustav III presented the tourmaline as a gift to Catherine the Great, the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. The jewel is now part of the Gokhran Diamond Fund Collection of the Russian Federation. 🗝 Just a reminder: Gokhran is an acronym derived from the Russian title "State Institution on Formation of the State Fund of Precious Metals and Precious Stones of the Russian Federation, Storage, Release and Use of Precious Metals and Precious Stones." It traces its history back to the Tsar's Rentery, established by a decree of Peter the Great on December 11 (22), 1719. This decree laid the foundation for the official state system responsible for safeguarding Russia's treasures and valuables. 🇷🇺 📷The Grape Leaves Emerald Brooch © Gokhran Diamond Fund Collection of Russian Federation. #JewelleryHistory #Gemstones #VintageJewellery #Treasure #Gemmology

In Memory of Princess Diana It was today, 27 years ago, 4:00 in the night, on August 31, 1997, when her heart stopped beating. The world lost Princess Diana.

Collection "Office Supplies" for September’s Pupils ✏️ 👐 Are you prepared for the 1st of September? If not, hurry up and get ready! Back to school or university? Check out the ring, earrings and cufflinks with sapphire and coral, crafted in silver © MARKIN Fine JEWELLERY. 👏 Vladimir Markin is a renowned Russian artist and jeweller, born in Moscow in 1979. In the autumn of 2010, he founded "Markin Jewelry Laboratory" leading it with partners until the end of 2016. During this period, he created famous jewels with architectural and industrial themes, establishing himself in the world of fine jewellery. Since 2016, Vladimir Markin has continued to create independently, designing jewels that mimic existed shapes surrounding us, in an innovate way through the combination of metals and gems. #VladimirMarkin #OfficeJewels #FineJewelry #ContemporaryJewelry #ModernJewelry #Jewelry #Jewels #MarkinJewels #Education #BackToSchool #September #JewelryDesign #HandcraftedJewelry #SilverJewelry #SapphireJewelry #CoralJewelry #RussianArt #LuxuryJewelry #JewelryLovers #ArtisticJewelry #JewelryCollection #JewelryInspiration #UniqueJewelry #JewelryFashion

"Bird on a Rock" in the colours of Tiffany & Co. 🦜 🙌Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium," with the help of Charles Tiffany's father, who financed the store with only $1,000 from profits made at a cotton mill. 👌Tiffany & Co. is typically associated with its main symbols of recognition, such as the light-medium bright shade of cyan used for their boxes-one of the most successful marketing approaches of the century-or the "Bird on a Rock" brooch. The "Bird on a Rock" brooch was originally designed in 1965 by the iconic designer Jean Schlumberger, who played a tremendous role in establishing the Tiffany & Co. as a brand. 👌The "Bird on a Rock" became one of Tiffany & Co.'s most recognizable designs, reaching new heights in 1995 when the House paired its famous 128.54-carat Tiffany & Co. Yellow Diamond with the designer's signature setting. This is why the first association with Tiffany & Co. is often the "Bird on a Yellow Rock"! ☝️Interestingly, even long before Schlumberger created the brooch, something very similar belonged to Tiffany & Co., which was known at the time as Tiffany, Young, and Ellis (1837–1853). A 148.5-carat Tiffany & Co. aquamarine, part of the Tiffany gems and gemstones collection, was first presented to the public in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair. Can you see the similarities between the Schlumberger "Bird on a Rock" brooch and the 148.5-carat aquamarine on ribbon brooch? 📷 Ribbon brooch with a148.5-carat aquamarine, diamonds, platinum and gold in © Field Museum of Natural History #Tiffany #Jewellery #JewelleryHistory #JeanSchlumberger #HighEndJewellery #FineJewellery #YellowDiamondBrooch #TiffanyBrooch #TiffanyRibbonBrooch #Aquamarine #Beryl #Gemstones #Gems #RareGems #Minerals #Crystals #Mineralogy #Crystallography #Gemmology #Gemology #Jewels #Jewelry #HistoryOfJewellery #Education

Brief about Aquamarine 🌊 🏞️ What is the colour of summer? Perhaps it’s aqua, associated with the sea-yes, aquamarine! That’s how the name of this beryl variety was formed, from the Latin "aqua" (meaning "water") and "marine" (meaning "of the sea") used for centuries to describe the gemstone’s aquatic colour. 👉 The beryl mineral group belongs to beryllium aluminum silicates. These minerals have a hexagonal crystal structure of cyclosilicate, where silicate tetrahedrons [SiO₄] (each consisting of a central silicon atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms at the corners) are arranged in rings [Si₆O₁₈]. Usually aquamarine crystals have prismatic morphology, with a hexagonal cross-section along the c-axis, ending with a flat basal pinacoid face and pronounced pyramidal faces. ✊ Based on colour, determined by iron Fe²⁺ and Fe³⁺ ions in the crystal structure, aquamarine ranges from pale blue, very slightly greenish blue, greenish blue, strongly greenish blue, to green-blue. Most aquamarines are light greenish blue, while the most desirable colour is a dark blue to slightly greenish blue with moderate saturation. 🤞 Luckily, the blue colour of this pleochroic gem aligns with the optimal cutting orientation, allowing the table facet to be parallel to the crystal’s length, maximising weight retention. This also a reason why so many aquamarines are so large, from 100, 1,000, or even more than 10,000 carats the largest found. 👌 Most faceted aquamarines are eye-clean, but like all beryl varieties, they can contain mineral inclusions, fractures, or even liquid-filled tubes, which can create a aquamarine cat’s-eye effect. Examining inclusions is key to distinguishing natural from synthetic aquamarines! 👋If you find us interesting, please follow us and enjoy! 👉Jewellery Insides Group. 📷 Rough aquamarine from Bahia, Guaratinga, Brasil © Kurt Story's Photography, Mindat. #aquamarine #beryl #gemmology #gems #geminclusions #raregems #crystals #minerals #mineralogy #crystallography #education

💄“Most Precious” 1000-cts Aquamarine, Named After a Perfume? 👥Mineralogical terminology and trade gemological names have long been subjects of debate, often filled with intentional deceptions or just accidental mistakes. But when it comes to the “Most Precious” aquamarine, the story is quite simple! 👇 👉Let’s start with something even simpler! The name aquamarine comes from the Latin word aqua (meaning "water") and marine, deriving from marina (Latin for "of the sea"). This name has been used for centuries to describe gemstones of aquamarine colour. The 1,000.00-cts, fancy rectangular-cut aquamarine, with its pure blue hue, was named “Most Precious” after the fragrance of the same name, launched by Evyan Perfumes Inc. in the early 1950s. 🎩It was Baron Walter Langer von Langendorff, the Austrian-born chemist who founded Evyan Perfumes Inc., who gifted the “Most Precious” aquamarine to the collection of the National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution in 1963. The company he named after his wife Evelyn Diane, and was founded in New York in the late 1930s as an American answer to the French perfume industry. The “Most Precious” fragrance featured floral and vanille notes such as lily of the valley, honeysuckle, narcissus, and orange blossom... 🖐️It’s worth remembering that emerald (bluish green-green), goshenite (colourless), morganite (pale-orange-bluish pink), heliodor, golden beryl (pale-golden-greenish yellow), and the rarest variety, red beryl (raspberry-red, orangey, purplish-red), are all the same mineral—beryl—just different gem varieties! 👋Each of these varieties has a history of its own, and many of our future posts will be dedicated to exploring each one in detail! 👋And many other aquamarines, to which we will dedicate a separate post! 👋If you find us interesting, please follow us and enjoy! 👋Above all, jewellery is about joy! 📷 ’’Most Precious’’ aquamarine © National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Education, Smithsonian Enterprises; 📷 Evyan Perfume ’’Golden Shadows’’ on Glamour from 1954 and the ’’Most Precious’’ Evyan Perfume poster from 1962. #aquamarine #beryl #MostPreciousAquamarine #gemstones #gems #raregems #minerals #crystals #mineralogy #crystallography #gemmology #gemology #jewellery #jewels #jewelry #jewelleryhistory #historyjewellery #Luxury #Education #EvyanPerfumes

💙The Roosevelt Aquamarine  💚Yesterday, the 25th of August 1944, Paris was liberated from German occupation, marking a triumphant moment in history known as la Libération de Paris. This day reminds us of la Libération from the darkest years of human history, WWII. Just a few years before, something blue appeared, something with the colour associated with the sky, hope, and freedom-known as the Roosevelt Aquamarine. 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇫🇷 🫴In 1936, before the WWII, Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gifted to the US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt a 1,298-cts blue emerald-cut aquamarine. After the war, in 1947, Eleanor Roosevelt donated the aquamarine to the Franklin D. Roosevelt - FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York. 🤞The Roosevelt Aquamarine was cut from a rough stone weighing 6,500-cts,State of Minas Gerais, about 880 miles from Rio de Janeiro. The mine, known as Laranjeira (Orange), was later renamed Pedra Azul (Blue Stone) for its rich finds. ✌️Gustav Reitbauer in Amsterdam cut the rough into two remarkable gems: one for the First Lady and another, weighing 865-cts, which was sold to Jagatjit Singh, the Maharaja of Kapurthala in India. ☝️The Roosevelt Aquamarine was recognised as the largest cut specimen of its kind until the 1980s, when a 10,363-cts blue-green obelisk, known as the Dom Pedro Aquamarine, entered the collection at the Natural Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 🙌 Generally, all beryl varieties (with the exception of red beryl, which is rarer and smaller compared to other beryl varieties) are found in large sizes, making them more interesting to cut and preserve in a vitrine, rather than as wearable jewels. Among the most famous aquamarines are pieces like: 👉“Most Precious” 1,000-cts – Smithsonian Institution; 👉"The Schlumberger Bow" a 148.5-cts aquamarine at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; 👉A flawless 898-cts aquamarine, housed in the Natural History Museum of London; 👉A 638-cts aquamarine, housed in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; 👉"Hirsch Aquamarine," a 109.92-cts gem at the Natural History Museum collections, science and digitisation centre of London; 👉Aquamarines on the Brazilian Aquamarine tiara, belonged to the Queen Elizabeth II, - Royal Collection Trust ... 👋 And many other aquamarines, to which we will dedicate a separate post!  👋If you find us interesting, please follow us and enjoy!  👋Above all, jewellery is about joy! 📷The Roosevelt Aquamarine, and an art deco style box, custom made by jeweller Casa Oscar Machado © Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, New York. #aquamarine #RooseveltAquamarine #beryl #gemstones #gems #raregems #minerals #crystals #mineralogy #crystallography #gemmology #gemology #jewellery #jewels #jewelry #jewelleryhistory #historyjewellery #LibérationdeParis

Will the second-largest rough diamond end up being the largest cut diamond ever? 💎 💎 The Cullinan Diamond, weighing an astonishing 3,106 cts (621.20 grams), remains the largest rough diamond ever discovered. It was on 26 January 1905 at the Premier No.2 mine in Cullinan, South Africa, where this remarkable gem-quality diamond was found. Named after the mine's owner, Thomas Cullinan, the diamond quickly became a global sensation. 👉 In January 1908, the diamond was entrusted to Joseph Asscher & Co (now Royal Asscher Diamond Company). in Amsterdam, where master cutter Abraham Asscher was tasked to cleave and polish the rough. The Cullinan yielded nine major stones, totaling 1,055.89 cts, along with 96 minor brilliants and some unpolished fragments weighing 19.50 cts. 💎 The largest stone, Cullinan I, also known as the Great Star of Africa, weighs 530.40 cts and is the largest clear-cut diamond in the world. It is now set in the head of the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross. The second-largest, Cullinan II, also known as the Second Star of Africa, weighs 317.4 cts and is mounted in the Imperial State Crown. Both gems are part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. 👉 On 21 August 2024, Lucara Diamond announced the discovery of a massive 2,492 cts diamond at the Karowe mine in Botswana. Let's remind that in the last decade, in the same open-pit mine were discovered the 1,109 cts Lesedi La Ronathe, the 1,758 cts Sewelô diamond, and two unnamed diamonds weighing 1,174.76 and 812.77. 💎 Only time will tell, whether the second-largest discovered rough diamond will give birth to the largest cut diamond ever. 📷 2,492 Rough Diamond © Lucara Diamond; 📷 3,106 Rough Cullinan Diamond, nine largest stones split from the rough Cullinan diamond and the nine major stones (Top: Cullinans II, I, and III. Bottom: Cullinans VIII, VI, IV, V, VII and IX) © Royal Collection Trust #CullianDiamond #Lucara #LucaraDiamonds #Diamond #Diamonds #Diamante #Adamas #Diamanti #RoughDiamonds #CutDiamonds #PolishedDiamonds #WhiteDiamonds #LesediLaRona #SewelôDiamond #CrownJewels #MakingDiamondHistory