Aurora Pyramid of Hope

The Aurora Collection is a collection of colored diamonds. It was built in the 1980s by the two Americans Alan Bronstein and Harry Rodman and originally included 260 diamonds with a total weight of 231.78 carats. Since 2005, the collection consists of 296 diamonds with a total weight of 267.45 carats. The stones are ordered by weight, number 1 weighs 0.13 carats and number 260 ( the original last number ) 2.88 carats.

History

Alan Bronstein ( born 1956 ) is a diamond dealer, he began to build the Aurora Collection in the early 1980s. The mid-1980s he met the gold dealer Harry Rodman ( 1909-2008 ) know. This came from a family of jewelers, his father emigrated in 1903 from the Russian Empire to the United States. The Aurora Collection has been expanded by purchases of the two and eventually consisted of 260 diamonds.

Colored diamonds were the early 1980s, then relatively unknown, they played no role in international trade. The first stones of the collection could Bronstein therefore buy cheap. The situation changed in that major auction houses advertised for the stones and distributors increasingly offering also colored diamonds. As a result, prices rose in 1999 cost colored diamonds up to one million U.S. dollars per carat.

Because of the pyramidal arrangement of the diamonds, the collection also Aurora Pyramid of Hope is named. Between 1989 and 2005, the pyramid in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City was issued. In 2005, she was part of the exhibition " Diamonds" at the Natural History Museum in London, there were added to the initial 260 diamonds 36 more. Since November 2006, the collection is on permanent display in London.