VALUABLE DIAMONDS
THE SOUTH AFRICAN FIND SALE REPORTED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, January 18. (Received January 19, at noon.) Press messages from South Africa state that the pure white flay less diamond weighing 726 carats, found by an elderly digger named Jonker at Elandsfontein, twenty miles from Pretoria, has been bought by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (chairman of the Diamond Corporation) , and is being sent to London. It is reported that the price was £70.000. The second stone, weighing 287 carats, which was found near the same spot a few days ago, has also been bought by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer. Elandsfontein is three miles from the point whex-e the famous Cullinan diamond (3,025 carats)— the largest in the world—was found in 1905.
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Evening Star, Issue 21623, 19 January 1934, Page 9
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124VALUABLE DIAMONDS Evening Star, Issue 21623, 19 January 1934, Page 9
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