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Bismarck Sapphire Necklace. A necklace featuring cushion-mixed-cut, medium-dark-blue sapphire. Described as "necklace, set in platinum with 312 round and step cut diamonds and 8 medium blue square step cut sapphires, clasp is stamped 'monture' and 'Cartier'." [AUTO]

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Bismarck Sapphire Necklace. Cushion mixed-cut medium-to-dark blue corundum (var. sapphire) (98.6 ct) in a necklace. Lot described as "necklace, set in platinum with 312 round and step cut diamonds and 8 medium blue square step cut sapphires, clasp is stamped 'monture' and 'cartier'." [AUTO]

Bismarck Sapphire Necklace. Cushion mixed-cut medium-to-dark blue corundum (var. sapphire) (98.6 ct) in a necklace. Lot described as "necklace, set in platinum with 312 round and step cut diamonds and 8 medium blue square step cut sapphires, clasp is stamped 'monture' and 'cartier'." [AUTO]

Bismarck Sapphire Necklace. Cushion mixed-cut medium-to-dark blue corundum (var. sapphire) (98.6 ct) in a necklace. Lot described as "necklace, set in platinum with 312 round and step cut diamonds and 8 medium blue square step cut sapphires, clasp is stamped 'monture' and 'cartier'." [AUTO]

Sapphire jewelry from the National Gem Collection at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on display in the Gem Gallery of the museum's Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals. Left to right: Catalog number NMNH G8044, the Hall Sapphire Necklace. Gift of Mrs. Evelyn Annenberg Hall in 1979. Catalog number NMNH G4753, the Bismarck Sapphire Necklace. Gift of Countess Mona von Bismarck in 1967. Catalog number NMNH G3703, the Logan Sapphire. Gift of Mrs. John A. Logan in 1960. Catalog record EZIDs: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/34854c3cd-3de6-48fd-b455-b807ac9e45ca http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3c8843850-1c7b-4f08-808e-3582efce7aa0 http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f5553dc9-4803-47c8-9c62-4aa621995b57

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Taxon:: Corundum (var. sapphire) - Primary Gem

Record Last Modified:: 17 Sep 2024
Specimen Count:: 1

Other Numbers:: IGSN ID : 10.58151/NHB002K2F
USNM Number:: NMNH G4753-00

Color:: Medium Dark Blue
Cut:: Cushion Mixed
Jewelery Type:: Necklace
Maker:: Cartier, Inc.
Weight:: 98.6 ct

Place:: Myanmar [Burma], Asia

See more items in:: Mineral Sciences; Gems; NMNH - Mineral Sciences Dept.

Record ID:: nmnhmineralsciences_1001973

GUID (Link to Original Record):: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3c8843850-1c7b-4f08-808e-3582efce7aa0