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Coronation
Gift to Queen
LONDON. Dec. ' 4.
A blue-white diamond
of 760 carats, worth
£1,000,000 sterling, which
diamond merchants are
certain will be the dia
mond trade's Coronation
gift to the Queen, will
soon be cut and polished
in London.
Describing it as „ "the
most wonderful diamond
I've ever seen," one Hat-
ton Garden merchant
said it had not come from
Court circles, nor did. the
Queen knotw anything
about it.
The Koh-i-noor, a dia
mond of 800 carats, val
ued at £2,000,000 sterling,
was set in the crown
worn by the Queen
Mother at her Coronation
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