Sunday 10 December 2017

Yellow Diamonds Sell At Bonhams




In 1940 when R.V. Cullinan the son of the renowned diamond magnate Sir Thomas Cullinan asked De Beers director Pierre De Villiers to buy him some diamonds on his next visit to Kimberley.
A collection of Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamonds owned by South Africa’s mining elite has sold at a Bonhams auction for well above its expected price.
The collection sold as two separate lots at the for a total of $773,350.

Source: DCLA

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