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The 23.6-carat fancy brown-orange diamond, on sale at Christie’s in Geneva in May.


The 33.07-carat cushion-shaped Kashmir sapphire in the Christie's sale.


The 47.15 carat octagonal-cut Burmese sapphire and diamond brooch by Mellerio.
  23.6-carat fancy brown-orange diamond ring that Elizabeth Taylor refused to go on sale


May 5, 2012


In 1975, the legendary movie couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton secretly remarried in Africa, only 16 months after getting divorced. During their second honeymoon in the Chobe game park in Botswana, Burton offered to buy his wife a 23.6-carat fancy brown-orange diamond ring, estimated at the time to be worth between $600,000 and $800,000.

But Taylor declined, suggesting that the money instead be used to build a medical clinic in Kasane, Botswana. The clinic was built, but only in 1978 after the two divorced for a second time. To help finance the construction of the facility, Taylor sold another diamond that that been given to her by Burton, the 33-carat Krupp Diamond in 1968. It was brought for $5 million by Henry Lambert, a New York-based jeweler.

On May 16 the 23.6-carat fancy brown-orange diamond ring is scheduled to go on sale at Christie's "Magnificent Jewels sale" at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues in Geneva. More than 340 lots estimated in excess of $50 million will be on offer. The square-cut diamond was graded by the Gemological Institute of America as a having a fancy brown-orange color, VVS1 clarity. Its estimated sales price is $2.5 million to $3.5 million.

Among the other outstanding gemstones that will be on sale at the Christie's event in Geneva are a cushion-shaped Kashmir sapphire ring of 33.07 carats, estimated to receive between at $2.5 million ad $3 million; and a 47.15 carat octagonal-cut Burmese sapphire and diamond brooch by Mellerio, estimated to sell between $480,000 and $580,000.

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