Editing Hope Diamond (section)

==Changes over time==
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|+ Changes over time
!Date acquired
!Owner
!Change in diamond
!Value when sold
!Notes
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|1653
|[[Jean-Baptiste Tavernier]]
|112.5 Old French karats, 116 metric carats
|220,000–720,000 livres. Tavernier received Patent of Nobility as part payment worth 450,000 livres
|<ref name=twsI35/><ref name=twsI44bb/> Acquired between 1640 and 1667, possibly 1653<ref name=Kurin1/>
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|1668<ref name="si.edu">{{Cite web |title=The Hope Diamond |url=https://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/hope.htm |access-date=2020-03-19 |website=www.si.edu}}</ref>
|[[Louis XIV]] of France
|Triangular 69 metric-carat gem<ref name=twsI44ll/> set on a cravat-pin 1674.<ref name="Morel, p.166" />
|Bequeathed
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|1715
|[[Louis XV]] of France
|Assembled into elaborate pendant ''Order of the Golden Fleece''<ref name=twsI44ll/>
|Bequeathed
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|1775
|[[Louis XVI]] of France
|69 metric carats<ref name=twsI44mm/>
|Stolen
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|1791<ref name="si.edu" />
|Government of France
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|Stolen
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|1792
|Unknown
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|Stolen
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|1812
|[[Daniel Eliason]], a London jeweler and receiver
|About 44 non-metric carats ({{convert|44|carat|g oz|adj=on}})
|$65,000; $90,000<ref name=twsI44jj/>
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|Between 1812 and 1830<ref name="si.edu" />
|[[George IV of the United Kingdom]]
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|Sold to pay off king's debts after death
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|1830–1839
|Unknown
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|Sometime between 1830 and 1839
|Henry Phillip Hope (1774–1839)
|Became known as the "Hope Diamond"
|Bequeathed
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|1839
|Henry Thomas Hope
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|Bequeathed
|Displayed at the 1851 London Exhibition<ref name=twsI35/>
|-
|1861
|[[Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne|Henry Pelham-Clinton, Duke of Newcastle]]
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|Bequeathed
|Hope gave his daughter the gem after she married.<ref name=twsI44bb/>
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|1884
|[[Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne|Lord Francis Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle]]
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|$250,000<ref name=twsI44ff/>
|<ref name=twsI44bb/><ref name=twsI44ff/>
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|1894
|[[May Yohé]], Lady Henry Francis Hope
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|£29,000 (£{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|29000|1908|2011|r=-1}}}} {{as of|2011|lc=y}})
|<ref name=twsI44bb/> May Yohé was the wife of Lord Henry Francis Hope
|-
|1901
|Adolph Weil, London jewel merchant
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|$141,032 (approximately £28,206). Second est: $148,000<ref name=twsI44bb/>
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|align="left"|1901
|align="left"|Simon Frankel
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|align="left"|1908
|align="left"|Selim Habib (Salomon? Habib)
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|1908
|Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II|Abdul Hamid]]
|44 3/8 carats ({{convert|44.375|carat|g oz|adj=on}})<ref name=twsI44jj/>
|400,000 francs; second estimate: $80,000.<ref name=twsI44bb/>
|Disputed whether Sultan owned it<ref name="twsI44jj" />
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|1909
|Simon Rosenau
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|550,000 francs
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|1910
|[[Pierre Cartier (jeweler)|Pierre Cartier]]
|Reset to appeal to Evalyn McLean; diamond mounted as a headpiece on three-tiered circlet of large white diamonds; became pendant
|$150K; $300K+; $185K
|Conflicting estimates of sale price
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|1911
|[[Edward Beale McLean]] and [[Evalyn Walsh McLean]]
|Weight thought to be 44.5 carats ({{convert|44.5|carat|g oz|adj=on}})
|$180,000
|<ref name=twsI34/><ref name=twsI35/> Entire McLean collection sold to Winston
|-
|1947
|[[Harry Winston]]
|Diamond's bottom [[facet]] slightly recut to increase brilliance
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|NYC jeweler; he took it around the US to popularize it<ref name=twsI34/>
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|1958
|[[Smithsonian Institution]]
|Settings, mountings, scientific study; weight found to be 45.52 metric carats in 1974
|$200–$250 million (if sold in 2011)
|Insured for $250 million<ref name=twsI34/><ref name=twsI35/>
|}