[windows2000] Re: OT: Ohio State 31 - Miami 24
- From: Jim Kenzig <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:34:48 -0500
OK you want some Aussie news?
How about this one.... next time you kick a rock down there think twice... :
)
JK
$90m tag on doorstop gem
By MICHAEL McKENNA in Los Angeles
18dec02
WHEN 14-year-old Roy Spencer found a black stone in 1935 his father
dismissed it as worthless and used it as a doorstop on their back veranda of
their Queensland home.
A decade later, when the Spencer family was finally convinced it was a
valuable stone, they sold it for pound stg. 6000 and bought a house. Now the
Black Star of Queensland -- a black sapphire as big as a hen's egg -- is on
the market for about $90 million.
"The offers have been pouring in from heads of state, business people and
the wealthiest foundations in the world," said gem curator Jack Armstrong.
"A-list actresses have been asking to wear it at the Oscars and to
premieres. I am not kidding, they see this as a once-in-a lifetime chance."
Nothing is known about the owner of the jewel, which has sat in a Beverly
Hills vault for the past 25 years, or the reason for the sudden decision to
sell.
It went on public display yesterday for the first time since the mid-1970s.
And the gem dealers are in a tizz. "The sale of the Black Star sapphire is a
huge event in the gemstone market," Mr Armstrong said.
"To have a stone like this come on the market is tantamount to having a
Raphael painting suddenly emerge for sale. It happens maybe once, maybe
twice, in a lifetime."
The Spencer family sold the stone in 1947 to Armenian-born jeweller Harry
Kazanjian, who travelled from Los Angeles to the central Queenland town of
Anakie to pick up his prize.
The stone, which weighed more than 1100 carats, was cut and polished to
reveal a brilliant six-point star sapphire weighing 733 carats -- dwarfing
the fabled Star of India sapphire's 563 carats.
Mr Armstrong said he expected to sell the stone for much more than the $90
million asking price.
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[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris McEvoy
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Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Ohio State 31 - Miami 24
Eh?
Is this about some form of American sport?
How terribly interesting...
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