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The '''Chalk Emerald''' is a | The '''Chalk Emerald''' is a 973.82 [[Carat (mass)|carat]] (7.564 g) [[Colombia]]n [[emerald]]. | ||
It originally weighed 38.40 carats (7.68 g), but was recut and set in a ring, where it is surrounded by sixty pear-shaped diamonds (totalling 15 carats (3 g)), by [[Harry Winston]] Inc. The ring is housed in the National Gem and Mineral Collection at the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[National Museum of Natural History|Natural History Museum]] in the [[United States]] and was donated to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. [[O. Roy Chalk]] in 1972. | It originally weighed 38.40 carats (7.68 g), but was recut and set in a ring, where it is surrounded by sixty pear-shaped diamonds (totalling 15 carats (3 g)), by [[Harry Winston]] Inc. The ring is housed in the National Gem and Mineral Collection at the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[National Museum of Natural History|Natural History Museum]] in the [[United States]] and was donated to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. [[O. Roy Chalk]] in 1972. | ||
Revision as of 23:13, 3 November 2008
The Chalk Emerald is a 973.82 carat (7.564 g) Colombian emerald.
It originally weighed 38.40 carats (7.68 g), but was recut and set in a ring, where it is surrounded by sixty pear-shaped diamonds (totalling 15 carats (3 g)), by Harry Winston Inc. The ring is housed in the National Gem and Mineral Collection at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in the United States and was donated to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. O. Roy Chalk in 1972.
