Gemstone 9 years served as a door stopper
'18.04.2017'
Source: Marketium
Carefully inspect your home, perhaps you have an uncut diamond or gem as a paper press or ... door stopper.
The son of a miner Harry Spencer in the 30s of the last century found a black crystal on a field in Queensland (Australia). Harry attached a stone in the house with a door stopper and decided that his son brought even a large, but most common crystal. So a stone, about the size of a palm, which now costs $ 80 million, has been in the house of 9 for years.
9 years after the find, the man learned that sapphires are not only blue, and decided to check the find of his son. It turned out that the black crystal found in a field in Queensland is a gem. He had been looking for a buyer for a palm-sized uncut sapphire and sold it to a jeweler in Los Angeles. Harry Kazanjian bought a sapphire for $ 18 (according to today's exchange rate, this is about $ 185).
It was Kazandjian who recognized the unique "Star Sapphire" in the black cobblestone. With the correct cut, the cost of such a stone increases many times over. This sapphire has unique facets that refract rays in a different way, and it shimmers, giving the reflection of a 6-pointed star.
During cutting, Kazanjian reduced the stone by almost 2 times, resulting in a star sapphire, which later became known as the "Black Star of Queensland". After being cut in 1949, this stone was worth more than $ 1 million. The sapphire is now set in a diamond necklace. And the former door stopper costs $ 80 million.
