Jeffrey Post, the museum’s now-retired curator of gemstones, dedicated nearly four decades at the Smithsonian to the study of the Hope Diamond, and his curriculum vitae is studded with ...

Photo Courtesy of John Bigelow Taylor The Hope Diamond that famously resides at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. has long been known for its inimitable ...

The Hope Diamond is one of the most iconic items in the Smithsonian's collections, but this glittering gem is rumored to have a dark side. French monarchs, an heiress, and at least one unlucky postman ...

Five years later it was recut to its 67 1/8-carat size, according to the Smithsonian Encyclopedia ... proven that the French Blue and the Hope Diamond were the same stone.

After her death in 1947, jeweler Harry Winston bought the Hope Diamond along with all her other jewelry. Perhaps he had the curse in mind when he decided to donate the diamond to the Smithsonian ...

He first had access to the Hope diamond in 1988 when he made a mold of it that he used for chocolate copies that were, for a while, sold in the Smithsonian gift shop. Then in 2007, “I learned ...

worn by Kate Winslet's character Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 movie "Titanic" — the Hope Diamond never sailed on the fateful ship. It's currently held at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

The diamonds have been donated by Ronald Winston, son of well-known jeweler and gem collector Harry Winston, who donated the iconic Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1958. Harry died in 1978.

More than 100 million people have visited the Hope Diamond, a blue stone cut into a 45.52 carat heart-shaped diamond, which Harry Winston donated to the Smithsonian in 1958, the museum says.

When he donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958, jeweler Harry Winston sent the fabled gem by registered first-class mail. This package carried the diamond on its trip from New ...

In 1958, Harry Winston donated the iconic Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian, laying the foundation for the museum’s National Gem Collection. The Winston Red Diamond and Winston Fancy Color Diamond ...

In 1839, the diamond was acquired by a precious gems collector named Henry Philip Hope, for whom the diamond ... according to the Smithsonian. Despite its similarity to another fictional diamond ...