Have you ever heard of the Cullinan diamond? If you haven’t, it was the largest diamond ever discovered: a 3106 carat diamond found in 1905 in South Africa. What’s interesting about the Cullinan diamond isn’t so much the discovery of the stone itself but what happened afterward: specifically, the cutting of the diamond. The Cullinan diamond was split into a number of smaller pieces — nine large pieces and dozens of smaller ones — by Joseph Asscher, a noted diamond cutter of the time.
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Posted by: Ed Moyle April 29, 2015 08:59 AMHave you ever heard of the Cullinan diamond? If you haven’t, it was the largest diamond ever discovered: a 3106 carat diamond found in 1905 in South Africa. What’s interesting about the Cullinan diamond isn’t so much the discovery of the stone itself but what happened afterward: specifically, the cutting of the diamond. The Cullinan diamond was split into a number of smaller pieces — nine large pieces and dozens of smaller ones — by Joseph Asscher, a noted diamond cutter of the time.