About the Hornby Diamond and Its Unknown History

about the Hornby diamond, which was brough from the Indies by William Hornby and which is now in the posession of the Shah of Persia.

THE HORNBY.

Another Gem unknown to History--Possibly to be found at Teheran.

John Murray writes: "The 'Hornby' diamond, brought from the East Indies by the Hon. William Hornby, governor of Bombay, in 1775, weighs 36 carats, and is now, I believe, the property of the Shah of Persia."

Nothing further is known of this stone, no mention of which occurs in any writer subsequent to the time of Murray, the second edition of whose Memoir appeared in 1839.


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