• Short Summary

    One of the world's biggest and most flawless diamonds fetched 2,200,000 Swiss France (210,000 sterling) when it was auctioned for the first time in Geneva on Thursday (November 19).

  • Description

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    GV INT Sale room - woman showing buyers diamond.
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    2.
    CU Diamond
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    SV Auctioneer conducts bidding. (Ends with banging of Gavil.)
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    Initials PAF/DW/VC/1830 PAF/DW/VC/1840



    Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved

    Background: One of the world's biggest and most flawless diamonds fetched 2,200,000 Swiss France (210,000 sterling) when it was auctioned for the first time in Geneva on Thursday (November 19). The 45.05 carat emerald-cut diamond, which was unmounted, was mined in South Africa and cut only last summer.

    The diamond was sold in an auction staged by Christie's, the London auctioneers, and bought by Christie's Paris representative, Princess Jeanne-Marie de Broglie, on behalf of an unnamed European private client.

    The sale as a whole realised a world record 15,133,600 Swiss France (1,500,000 sterling).

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    Film ID:
    VLVA9DKBCDZVEVS49VX4K7XAJR6IP
    Media URN:
    VLVA9DKBCDZVEVS49VX4K7XAJR6IP
    Group:
    Reuters - Source to be Verified
    Archive:
    Reuters
    Issue Date:
    20/11/1970
    Sound:
    Unknown
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Colour
    Duration:
    00:00:56:00
    Time in/Out:
    /
    Canister:
    N/A

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