Diamond Collection (page 12)

Kimberley Mine - diamond excavation
Diamond excavation machinery, and miners at the Kimberley Mine in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Date: 1883

Royal family at Kimberley
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and their two daughters, Princesses Elizabeth (to the right) and Margaret, are shown a display of cut and uncut diamonds in the De Beers office, Kimberley

Fruit Label -- Irish apples
Fruit Label -- Diamond Brand specially selected Irish apples. Date: 20th century

Queen Victoria - Diamond Jubilee - Italian Opera Invitation
Invitation to a State performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, London on 23rd June 1897 to celebrate Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee

Chocolate box design, kingfishers
Chocolate box design, featuring kingfishers, the one in the middle with a fish in its beak. Date: 20th century

Arrival of the royal party at the Devonshire House ball
Arrival of the royal party, including the Prince and Princess of Wales (the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) at the Devonshire House historical costume ball

Advert for Mappin & Webb fine jewellery 1935
Fine jewellery by Mappin & Webb, showing diamond cluster rings, necklaces, brooches and earrings. Date: 1935

Advert for Asprey rings 1938
A selection of fine quality stones specially selected for there depth and perfect cutting reflecting the full brilliance of the gems. Date: 1938

Advert for Ciro jewellery, for coronation 1937
Ciro will be well represented at the Coronation. 1937

Advert for Ciro jewellery 1934
Fashionable circle brooch and dress clip designs by Ciro, with two actresses of the time modelling them Gwenllian Gill and Anna Lee. 1934

Advert for Parisian Diamond Company 1912
Selection of decorative elegant diamond jewellery. 1912

Advert for Association of Diamond Merchants Jewellers 1896
Diamond and pearl jewellery for 1893. 1893

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths jewellery 1893
Novelty jewellery for Christmas gifts. 1893

Advert for Mappin & Webb fine jewellery 1936
Fine jewellery by Mappin & Webb, showing diamond cluster rings, brooches, watches and earrings. Date: 1936

Advert for Ciro ladies diamond wristwatches 1937
Advert for ladies diamond cocktail wristwatches. Date: 1937

Advert for Asprey gold charms 1938
Asprey of Bond Street, a colllection of bracelet charms, gold and topaz bracelet and gold and diamond clips. 1938

Advert for Parisian Diamond Company 1904
Woman wearing decorative fashionable jewellery by Parisian Diamond Company. 1904

Diamond Peak Ca
Two travelers pause to admire the view of Diamond Peak and the ravine of the middle fork of the Willamette river, northern California. Date: 1857

Advert for Asprey jewellery 1938
Fashion decorative jewellery. Date: 1938

Francois Comte LA Motte
FRANCOIS HENRI comte de LA MOTTE - French aristocrat whose wife Jeanne, mistress of the cardinal de Rohan, masterminded the scandalous Diamond Necklace affair. Date: CIRCA 1785

Jeanne Comtesse LA Motte
JEANNE de St.REMY de VALOIS, COMTESSE DE LA MOTTE French adventuress who masterminded the Diamond Necklace Affair implicating Marie Antoinette and others. Date: 1756 - 1791

Bridge Illustrated - Gone on Diamonds
A pretty young lad and her adoring (and rich, although perhaps the Pawnbroker sign top right may mean he isn t all he appears) husband spend some of (his) money on something sparkly at the Jewellers

Mary Augusta May Yohe - American musical theatre actress
Mary Augusta " May" Yohe (18661938) - American musical theatre actress. In 1894, she married Lord Francis Hope and possessed the Hope Diamond. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Trying it on
Trying it on! A sailor boy (home on leave) proposes to his girl sweetheart and presents her with a diamond ring! Date: circa 1942

Namibia - The Consolidated Diamond Mines at Elisabethbucht. Date: circa 1930s

The Diamond, East Liverpool, Ohio Date: circa 1910s

Diamond Mine - Kimberley, South Africa Date: 1877

Madame la Duchesse de Guise
A portrait photograph of the Duchess of Guise, born Princess Isabelle of Orleans (1911-2003), mother of the Count of Paris, wearing a tiara with sapphires and diamonds at the front. Date: circa 1938

Kimberley, South Africa - Convicts sorting for diamonds Date: circa 1903

Design for Printed Textile in brown and beige. Watercolour on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1941

Diamond in pebble
A solitary diamond in conglomerate, from Golconda, India

Diamond flower brooch
Victorian diamond-encrusted flower with a sapphire at its centre

Diamond spikes

Plaster mould recording the original shape of the Koh-i-Noor
Made in 1851 before the diamond was re-cut to a brilliant oval. This cast records the Mogul-style cut of the Koh-i-Noor diamond

Fossilised Mesturus verrucosus
Fossilised fish from upper Jurassic lithographic limestone, Eichstadt, Germany. 150 million years ago

Plate 3a from Histoire naturelle? (1789)
Plate 3a, Histoire Naturel Des Mineraux et de Pierres Precieuses, from Histoire naturelle: ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir? (1789) by by Swebach Desfontaines

Morelia spilota, diamond python
Watercolour 40 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Hannays diamond
No.1 of Hannays diamonds. Specimen held in the Mineralogy Department at The Natural History Museum, London

Reptilia (class), snake
Watercolour 57 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

The Six Voyages of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
English Translation, London. 1677-78. Jean-Baptiste Tvernier was a French writer, traveller and trade merchant. He amassed a small fortune through his expertise and trade in diamonds

Diamond field, Cape of Good Hope
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Included diamond gemstone
A two-carat rectangular step-cut diamond with a large violet-red garnet inclusion visible in the table facet

Interstellar diamonds
This specimen is known as the Allende meteorite. When viewed under a transmission electron microscope it shows formations of tiny interstellar diamonds

Diamonds are forever
I m happy

Diamond crystals
Clockwise from top left (yellow matrix): in beach conglomerate from Namaqualand, in kimberlite from South Africa and in matrix from Siberia (bottom)

Diamonds fluorescing
Murchison snuff box set with diamonds fluorescing under ultra violet radiation. Gold snuff box set with diamonds ranging from 0.75 to 2.5 carats, presented to Sir R. I. Murchison by Tsar Alexander II

Diamond and simulants
Five gemstones showing dispersion and light spill. Left to right: strontium titanate, cubic zirconia, diamond, YAG, and synthetic white sapphire

Birthstone Series: Brilliant Cut Diamond
Diamond, a gemstone from the Natural History Museum collections, in London. Diamond is the birthstone for the month of April (along with quartz, rock crystal). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

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