How to Care for Your Fine Jewelry
Timeline: Inside The Tiffany & Co And Lvmh Merger
In 1867, 15-year-old Erasmus Jacobs picked up a 21-carat stone by a riverbank; three years later a Griqua farm boy, Booi, picked up an 83-carat stone on land close to the Orange River. Around Kimberley in South Africa, rock engravings dated possibly earlier than 10,000 years ago of roan antelope, zebra and ostrich are so fantastic in detail, that it is instructed that a diamond could have cut these petroglyphs. Australian geologist EWEN TYLER has been known as the ‘Father of Australian diamonds’, having led the invention of the nation’s three …