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This came in a little too late for me to run it as news but if read the story last week about amazing diamonds going under the auctioneer’s gavel, you might like a closer look at them, especially now that we have the final pricetag. Two sets of diamonds, whose origins are a matter of speculation, were sold for SFr5.7 million and SFr3.96 m, well above their expected combined sales price of SFr4 million. Here is the set of jewels, made by Chaumet into jewelry for the courtesan La Paiva in 1878 and remounted for a European princess 10 years later. The pear-shaped yellow diamond is 82.48 carats and the cushion-shaped one is 102.54.

The jewels were sold by an unknown  "European princely family" to an unknown buyer.

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