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A Vivid Pink Diamond and a Giant Ruby Both Sold for a Record $35 Million at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s and Christie’s sold a combined $158,152,390 worth of jewels this week in New York, in sales that were dominated by spectacular named diamonds (flawless, colored, or huge), along with eye-popping specimens of ruby ​​and sapphire, one of them setting the record for the most valuable gemstones sold at auction. Sotheby’s clocked its highest total for a jewelry auction in New York, at $95.9 million, setting several gemstone price records, and Christie’s hammered at $62,252,390 in its Magnificent Jewels sale, which included the 127-carat Peace Diamond, selling for $13,635,000.

Sotheby’s $95.9-million Magnificent Jewels sale in New York on June 8

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Police are looking for a man who may have a piece of jewelry that belongs to the man killed by train at North Station

The police are looking for a man who may have jewelry that belongs to the man killed by train


The police are looking for a man who may have jewelry that belongs to the man killed by train

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BOSTON – Transit Police are looking to help a grieving family find a piece of jewelry by tracking down the man who may have it.

The man is believed to have a gold chain that belongs to Adam White, of Sherborn. White was hit and killed by a Green Line train in North Station early in the morning on May 30,

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‘Mommy bandits’ grab jewelry, designer merchandise at La Jolla shop

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Surveillance video shows a stunning crime playing out in a La Jolla shop: women holding young children in one arm and stealing with the other.

Lucie BongLai Le says she was filled with dread, after discovering missing items at the 2nd Act West, the consignment shop she’s owned for 9 years.

When she looked at the surveillance video, the dread turned to something else.

“I feel a different anger each time I watch it,” said Le.

Last Friday, just past 4 pm, three women are seen walking into the shop, stroller in tow. Two of them

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Las Vegas maid stole $768,000 in jewelry from hotel room, police say

A housekeeper for a Las Vegas hotel was charged for allegedly stealing more than $750,000 worth of jewelry from a room last month, including designer watches, bracelets and necklaces, according to police and court files obtained by The Washington Post.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department identified Amanda Melendez from housekeeping logs and key card tracking information at Vdara Hotel & Spa, an MGM property on the Strip. Investigators also unearthed a recording of a collect phone call to Melendez from Clark County Detention Center in which she describes the stolen items to an apparent romantic partner in the prison,

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Bulgari Debuts an Extravagant, Megawatt Collection of High Jewelry Watches

A secret watch set with over 4,800 stones, a necklace set with a 218.53-carat Colombian emerald, and an Octo Roma wristwatch adorned with a cameo of the Roman emperor Augustus encircled in diamonds—these are just a few of the opulent pieces to debut in Bulgari’s new high jewelry and watch collection, presented to press and clients at a star star-studded event in Venice, Italy attended by Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, and Priyanka Chopra.

Jewelers are increasingly pulling out all the stops to entertain their VIP clientele in exotic settings with rare experiences. This event included a dinner at the Palazzo Ducale

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Oak Lawn jewelry store broken into, owner ‘beaten severely,’ family says

OAK LAWN, Ill. — The owner of an Oak Lawn jewelry store is in the hospital after a trio of suspects burst through a wall in the business and stole property, on top of assaulting the owner.

Police said Elias Mseeh, owner of Ramallah Jewelry in Oak Lawn, had just opened up for the day, around 12:15 pm, when three thieves burst through a wall into the store.

“It looks like they just kicked in the wall,” said Gerald Vetter, Division Chief of Oak lawn PD.

According to police, the trio broke into a vacant retail space next door to

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$196 million jewelry auction in Geneva: Here’s why the gala event is ‘doubly indecent’

Despite vigorous criticism about the Nazi-era origins of Heidi Horten’s wealth, an auction of the late Austrian billionaire’s jewelry became the most expensive public sale in history.

Spread over the course of two live auctions in Geneva on May 10 and 12 (a third online auction ended on May 15), a treasure trove of necklaces, bracelets, earrings and tiaras carried a presale estimate of $150 million. The first one totaled 138.3 million Swiss francs ($154 million), already setting a world record for a single-owner jewelry sale. The second, which contained a few big-ticket lots, brought in 37.8 million francs, pushing

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How did Elizabeth Taylor end up owning the Prince of Wales brooch, something that could’ve belonged to Princess Catherine today?

Elizabeth Taylor owned the Prince of Wales brooch, but how?

Elizabeth Taylor owned the Prince of Wales brooch, but how?

The Prince of Wales brooch, thought to be a significant piece, would naturally be worn by the likes of Kate Middleton, the current Princess of Wales and wife of Prince William, today. But an oversight on the part of Lord Mountbatten meant that the rare piece of jewelry left the royal vaults when Edward abdicated for Wallis Simpson. And, in a story worthy of a Hollywood telling itself, it somehow ended up in the possession of none other than Elizabeth Taylor.

In Kate Andersen Brower’s authorized biography of Elizabeth Taylor,

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