Lesotho Brown

Lesotho Brown

The Lesotho Brown at 601 carats is one of the largest diamonds found.

It was unearthed at the Letseng diamond mine in Lesotho in 1967 at Letseng-la-Terai by Ernestine Ramaboa. The rough was fashioned in 1968 into 18 polished diamonds totalling 242.50 carats. The largest was a 71.73-carat emerald cut known as the Lesotho I. The Lesotho III (the third largest stone cut from the crystal) is a 40.42-carat marquise-shaped gem that was once owned by Jackie Kennedy, given to her by her husband Aristotle Onassis. The ring had an estimated value of $600,000 US, but at the Jackie Kennedy estate sale auction in April 1996 it reached a price of $2,587,500 US dollars. It was mounted in a platinum ring created by Harry Winston.

In October 2006, an even larger stone, the Lesotho Promise was discovered at the mine.

ee also

*Lesotho Promise
*List of famous diamonds


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