Christie’s Magnificent Jewels Auction Realizes $47.77 Million
Christie’s Magnificent Jewels Auction Realizes $47.77 Million (October 17, ''07, 12:27 IDEX Online Staff Reporter) Christie’s has announced that the sales of its recent Magnificent Jewels and Magnificent Jewels from a Distinguished Private Collection auctions totaled $47,773, 275. The collections were 89 percent sold by lot and 94 percent sold by value. The top lot of the day was a regular cut fancy intense blue diamond of 5.07 carats, which realized $2,885,700 overall, which meant $570,000 per carat (p/c). Other noteworthy items included a Harry Winston rectangular cut D color VV / S2, type IIa diamond ring of 23.14cts, which sold for $2.617 million ($113,000 million p/c) and a 7.88 carat pear shape fancy dark blue-gray diamond, which sold for $1,239,400 ($157,000 p/c). The auction realized sales of 295 lots, out of 331 lots offered. Head of Jewelry for Christie’s Americas, Rahul Kadakia commented, “All eyes were on Christie’s today as the market was waiting with great expectations for the result of the first major jewelry auction of the fall season in the U.S. “Diamonds continue to make sensational prices with…$113,000 per carat for a 23.14 carat D color diamond. The Magnificent Jewels from a Distinguished Private Collection with masterpieces by the likes of Harry Winston and Van Cleef & Arpels was 100% sold and realized a total of $8.9 million,” he noted. source: idex online
20/01/2008 14:58:57
i do have these stones and i do wont to sell them refractive index 1.57-1.6 critical angle 39.5 specific gravety 2.65-2.75 cleavage none fracture conchoidal dispersion medium .014 bire fringence double refrection weak .006-009 cristal structur hexagonal chemistry be3al2o18 beryllium alumium slicate
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