Worlds Columbian
Necklace Holders Dating As Far Back As The Royals In Spain
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC is home to such a lot that’s rare and fantastic in the world. One of the more spectacular collections is the collection of gems in the Museum of Natural History.
There you can see wonderful crystals and minerals in their natural form, as well as some of the most incredible pieces of jewellery ever made. There are crowns worn by royalty, giant diamond earrings worn by the doomed French queen Marie-Antoinette.
They’re all stunning and awe-inspiring, but nothing is more mysterious than the rare earth-green of the emerald. The Smithsonian is home to the most lovely emeralds ever known, and we are incredibly lucky to have them in this country.
One doesn’t routinely associate pretty jewelry with the time of the Spanish Inquisition. But in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of gems, there is a beautiful necklace holder stand and a necklace badge holder of diamonds and emeralds.
It’s a spectacular double row of diamonds and emeralds ending in a candelabrum of emeralds. There is unfortunately very little information about the provenance of these necklace holders. The large diamonds and Columbian emeralds were most likely cut in India in the 17th century.
This would make them one of the earliest examples of cut gemstones in the Smithsonian’s Collection. There are really only legends surrounding this wall necklace holder display stand were used in this era.The Spanish and French have worn it from times to times dignitaries.
In the early 20th century, it was purchased by the Maharajah of Indore, whose son sold the necklace in 1947 to Harry Winston. Winston afterwards sold the necklace to Mrs. Pittsburgh’s Cora Hubbard Williams. She gave it to the Smithsonian in 1972.
Emeralds are a kind of crystal known as beryls. Beryls are normally clear crystals, but when infused with chromium or vanadium, they reach numerous gradations of green. The purest green is the rarest emeralds and many people actually prefer an emerald that has a blue-green tint.
Before the 16th century, the sole known emerald deposits were in Cleopatra’s Egyptian mines. But after emeralds were found in Columbia, those became the gold standard in emeralds.
Columbian emeralds have been discovered by archaeologists among artifacts of such tribes as the Inca, Maya, Aztec, Toltec and the lesser-known Chibcha Indians. Emeralds are among the rarest of gemstones and can be more expensive per carat than even the best diamonds!
They are definitely a hard mineral, with a Moh’s hardness scale of seven or eight ( compared to a diamond’s 10 ). While most emeralds are found in Africa and Russia, there have been findings of emerald deposits in North Carolina!
The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (The Urban Simulati
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