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Much of the technical information concerning the Tavernier Blue was
developed while researching the Hope diamond. Jean Baptiste Tavernier
first saw the stone around 1668, and described it at the time as 112
3/16 carats. He fortunately provided the only known drawing of this
stone so that it can be recreated. This process is covered in detail in
the research page for the Hope Diamond.
One of the historical technical fictions about this stone relate that it
is the size of a man’s fist. This is clearly not the case, as the
replica is 32.89 x 27.65 x 12.92 mm as derived by GemCad modeling. For
those unfamiliar with metric measurements, it is a little over an inch
in length and width and half an inch deep. If it were the size of a
man’s fist, he would have had to reside in Oz. |
