Jewelry - Exchange

A very pretty girl helped me checkout at the Park Slope Foodcoop today.  She was wearing this gorgeous, vibrant blue cocktail ring.  I instinctively asked her what kind of gem was she wearing.

Her:  Oh... I don't know, I think it's the Hope Diamond.

Me:  Wow.  Did you break into the Smithsonian?

Her:  Yah.  There's some espionage thing that went down.

And did you know...
The elusive Ms. Evalyn Walsh McLean once wore the 44.5 carat Hope Diamond - set in a headpiece surrounded by three tiers of white diamond - as a part of her costume to a party thrown by the Vanderbilts at the Marble House (Newport, Rhode Island)?

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She later had the diamond's setting changed into a pendant, as photographed.

Wow,

Seimi