A diamond bought for £ 10 sold at 656,750 from Sotheby’s
Occasionally, a painting bought at a marketplace reveals (or hides) a masterpiece of a master and is immediately re-evaluated. More rarely, it turns out that a jewel is more precious than it was believed. Let’s just say it: usualy it happens exactly the opposite. But it is not the case of a lucky one who bought a ring for 10 pounds (about 11.5 euros) by accident with what he thought was a big crystal. Instead, it was a 26-carat diamond, which was sold now by Sotheby’s in London for £ 656,750, about 775,000 euros. The ring was sold after a hectic bargaining lasting only two minutes: before the auction the experts had estimated the jewel at a maximum price of £ 350,000. Do not, however, hope to have the same luck when you buy a ring at a market. Another interesting item of the auction was a brooch by Cartier worn by Margaret Thatcher and sold for the benefit of the Endeavor Fund, which supports the recovery of injured, military and sick and injured women. Other jewels for sale were from the collection of King Farouk of Egypt. Federico Graglia