Golconda Diamonds: Princie Diamond
Princie Diamond This unnamed 'Pink Diamond ' which the actual year of its discovery is yet unknown though its existence first recorded over 300 years ago. The 'Pink Diamond' has once in the possession of the ruling family of Turkey, and also once in the possession of the 'Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad' was the premier Prince of India, since 1724, belonging to the Asaf Jah dynasty - an illustrious and wealthiest person ever lived in 1927 of Moghul empire in India . Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad, 1724 The 'Pink Diamond' first appeared at a Sotheby's London auction in 1960 the rare diamond resurfaced as part of an auction featuring 'The Property of a Gentleman', and described as a spectacular (medium) pink cushion-cut diamond - the color and clarity grades of the pink diamond were not established at that time as such standard grades were perhaps unknown in the gemological industry - its origin is from the famous Golconda mining o...