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The Beau Sancy "is not the finest white diamond, " says David Bennett, Sotheby's Geneva-based chairman of jewelry for Europe and the Middle East.
WSJ: The Beau Sancy Diamond at Sotheby's: From Prussia, With Love
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The decision to put the Beau Sancy up for sale now was "not mine alone, " says Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, a 35-year-old Berlin-based management consultant and current head of the House of Hohenzollern.
WSJ: The Beau Sancy Diamond at Sotheby's: From Prussia, With Love
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The Beau Sancy has a fairy-tale past.
WSJ: The Beau Sancy Diamond at Sotheby's: From Prussia, With Love
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The 34.98-carat Beau Sancy diamond, the signature gem of the Prussian crown jewels, has made it through the last three turbulent centuries firmly in the hands of the House of Hohenzollern, the ruling dynasty of Prussia and, later, imperial Germany.
WSJ: The Beau Sancy Diamond at Sotheby's: From Prussia, With Love