- Eagle Diamond
The Eagle Diamond was discovered in
Eagle, Wisconsin in 1876 by a man named Charles Woods while he was digging a well. The land in which he was digging was not his own, it belonged to Thomas Deveraux, and Charles and his wife Clarissa were renters. Woods did not think the stone was very valuable, and believed it to be a topaz, because the color of the 16.25 carat (3.25 g) stone was a "warm sunny color". Some years later, when the Woods family fell on hard times, Clarissa sold the stone for $1.00 to a Samuel B. Boynton ofMilwaukee . Sometime after the sale, Boynton took the stone toChicago for appraisal where it was revealed to be a diamond, and worth at least$US 700.Boynton sold the
diamond toTiffany ’s inNew York City forUS$ 850. It remained at Tiffany’s untilWorld War I .J.P. Morgan bought the diamond, and presented it as a gift to theAmerican Museum of Natural History , in New York City. It was placed in the J.P. Morgan exhibit along with the Star Sapphire of India and the de Long Ruby until it was stolen onOctober 29 ,1964 byMurph the Surf .At that time of the stone’s discovery, it was one of the largest ever recovered in the continental United States. It has been hypothesized that the Eagle Diamond was probably cut into smaller stones and no longer exists.
External links
* [http://www.uwrf.edu/~wc01/Diamond.html Diamonds in Wisconsin]
* [http://www.eaglebusinessassn.org/EagleWaterTower.asp Ever wonder why...]
* [http://research.amnh.org/earthplan/Collections/Minerals The AMNH Gem and Mineral Collection]
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