Aurora Pyramid of Hope
The Aurora Pyramid of Hope is a collection of colored diamonds . It was built by the two Americans Alan Bronstein and Harry Rodman since the 1980s and originally consisted of 260 diamonds with a total weight of 231.78 carats . Since 2005, the collection has consisted of 296 diamonds with a total weight of 267.45 carats. The stones are sorted by weight, number 1 weighs 0.13 carats and number 260 (originally the last number) 2.88 carats.
history
Alan Bronstein (* 1956) is a diamond dealer who started building the Aurora Collection in the early 1980s. In the mid-1980s he met the gold dealer Harry Rodman (1909-2008). This came from a jeweler's family, his father emigrated in 1903 from the Russian Empire in the United States . The Aurora Collection was expanded with purchases by the two and eventually consisted of 260 diamonds.
Colored diamonds were relatively unknown in the early 1980s and played no role in international trade. Bronstein was therefore able to buy the first stones in the collection cheaply. The situation changed when large auction houses advertised the stones and dealers increasingly also offered colored diamonds. As a result, prices rose, with colored diamonds costing up to $ 1 million per carat in 1999 .
Because of the pyramidal arrangement of the diamonds, the collection is also called the Aurora Pyramid of Hope . Between 1989 and 2005 the pyramid was on display in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City . In 2005 it was part of the “Diamonds” exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London , where 36 diamonds were added to the original 260 diamonds. The collection has been on permanent display in London since November 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Aurora borealis in a rock. forbes.com, accessed May 10, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Glittering Aurora Collection goes on display. (No longer available online.) Nhm.ac.uk, archived from the original on May 9, 2013 ; accessed on May 10, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Alan Bronstein & Stephen C. Hofer: Forever Brilliant: The Aurora Collection of Colored Diamonds. Pp. 25 & 89.
- ^ Court Battle Over Aurora Pyramid of Hope Diamonds. nytimes.com, accessed May 10, 2013 .
- ^ Alan Bronstein & Stephen C. Hofer: Forever Brilliant: The Aurora Collection of Colored Diamonds. Pp. 1-2.
- ^ Aurora Collection on Display at London's Natural History Museum. gia.edu, archived from the original on February 24, 2009 ; accessed on May 10, 2013 .
- ^ A multi-million diamond collection is on show in London. auroragems.com, accessed May 10, 2013 .
