It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, insured for one million dollars. Surrounded by 16 white pear-shaped and cushion-cut diamonds ... of history and the dark world of the ...

It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, insured for one million dollars. Surrounded by 16 white pear-shaped ... diamonds, only one diamond has ever been found that has produced a ...

In the pendant surrounding the Hope Diamond are 16 white diamonds, both pear-shapes and cushion cuts. A bail is soldered to the pendant where Mrs. McLean would often attach other diamonds including ...