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The head is made of 18 carat white gold and encrusted with 763 diamonds; and the eyes are made of two 1.1 carat matching pear shaped diamonds. The Eagle stands watch over the Atocha Star emerald , a 12.72 carat emerald [ 4 ] valued at $3.18 million in 2013. [ 13 ]
The Brilliant 10 diamond design is a 71-facet round brilliant cut diamond design developed and patented by Shimansky. [7] [8] [9] After years of research and refinement, Shimansky created this 71-faceted round brilliant cut diamond featuring 10 arrows on the top and 10 hearts on the bottom. This design is claimed to be 25% brighter than other ...
Priced at: $1.47 million. With only one of these produced each year, this Diamante fountain pen boasts a platinum barrel encrusted with over 30 carats of De Beers diamonds and an 18-karat gold nib ...
Diamond jewellery sets, a sword with a diamond-encrusted handle, several shoe buckles and buttons made of diamonds, and parts of a diamond necklace belonging to Queen Amalie Auguste from 1824. Valued at €113 million. In December 2022 it was announced that a large portion of the stolen items had been recovered.
When worn with a bevor as was usual outside Italy, a sallet covers the entire head. The Italian version was a curvaceous helmet with a short tail, and was sometimes provided with a 'bellows visor'. The German sallet was distinguished by a long, sometimes laminated, tail that extended to cover the back of the neck and by a single, long eye slit.
Armor of Achilles, created by Hephaestus and said to be impenetrable. (Greek mythology) Armor of Beowulf, a mail shirt made by Wayland the Smith. (Anglo-Saxon mythology) Armor of Örvar-Oddr, an impenetrable "silken mailcoat". (Norse mythology) Babr-e Bayan, a suit of armor that Rostam wore in wars described in the Persian epic Shahnameh. The ...
Amor Vincit Omnia shows Amor, the Roman Cupid, wearing dark eagle wings, half-sitting on or climbing down from what appears to be a table. Scattered around are the emblems of all human endeavors – violin and lute, armor, coronet, square and compasses, pen and manuscript, bay leaves, and flower, tangled and trampled under Cupid's foot.
On The Trail Of The Golden Owl was Max Valentin's first treasure hunt. He came up with the idea for the puzzle in the late 1970s, and spent 450 hours designing eleven textual riddles, which together hold the clues to a final location and a cache, hidden somewhere in France.