The Largest Diamond Discovery of All Time!
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2023
- The story of how the largest diamond ever discovered went from being in the ground to ending up in the British Crown Jewels.
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Fredrick was inspecting the walls of a diamond mine when he spotted something shiny but thought it was glass , in a diamond mine
The level of bs in this story. They looted SA left right and centre
@@dailydoseofrandomvideos5482 he didn't say that they didn't loot SA lmfao
Fredrick was always a different kind of cat.
@@chelo4197 bruh
@Chelo but he did say Frederick found it💩😂😂😂😂😂
Then he went to a glass factory and saw something shiny and thought it was a diamond. But it was a beer bottle
Jahahahahaj
🤣😂🤣
xD
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😂😂😂🤣
The British Empire who says crime dosent pay
spoils of war bud
Rulers decide what Crime is ...
He found the diamond in a mine that he owned, which crime did he commit?
And white Brits complain about all the people coming to their country from countries they exploited all these years. Got to love the irony.
From 3000 carats to 500? I'm going to complain to the manager.
Diamonds are the trash of gemstones
@@jamessix2874they’re not gemstones
@@jamessix2874they are the empty gemstone. Basically a blank art canvas
Well they coulda cut it bigger but it would have big flaws in it and look like crap. They cut out the biggest chunk they could that qould be pretty clear of cracks and flaws. Trust me it's big enough. Go to the tower of London and look at it.
@@h.s.lafever3277 antisemitic filth
Ah yes, he just happened to find the largest diamond on a wall. I'm sure that story was the winning one after silencing the poor worker that found it first
100%
Makes me sick to be British, well I'm Scottish so being called British usually doesn't sit well with me any way.... Poor guy who found it likely died to avoid paying his tiny tiny portion of a BILLION DOLLARS.
Fucking blood diamonds make me sick and showing it off at the heart of the crown jewels just shows how little value humans have to royalty. As long as they get to look pretty.
Netflix needs you bro.
He found the diamond while wearing a suite in the hot african sun
Annnnd then British royalty proceeded to wear that diamond for show, well into modern history, when it was mined from a place that could probably use a little cash....
TikTok jewellers be like: I'll give you $1500 tops
y'a unless you are a genuine diamond that glass is worthless hahaa royal clam heads
Well I’m reality diamonds are worthless so that’s a reasonable price
@@TheMrNuggetno they are actually valuable till the Monopoly on diamonds is over
@@Gizz101 they aren’t actually that valuable. The only reason they are is because one company owns most of the diamonds that get sold. So they set the price high
And then put it on a hydraulic press between pikemon cards as a subway surfer video plays with a joe rogan audio
Unbelievable the king and the queen took it like beggars and thieves
Yeah, same for the African warlords they can’t even provide clean drinking water for their own people but buy lavish things for themselves
😂
Shoulda sold it for crack
Its not worth anything.
Like colonists you mean yea?
And this how Britishers looted diamonds and gold from the world 💀
lol, South Africa was literally a part of the British Empire at this time. It's not looting.
Me visiting a glass shop and seeing something shining:
"This might be a diamond"
😂😂😂😂
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
😂😂😂😂😂
Seriously lol , out of the 1000 enslaved people, he was the smart European who found it, my a$$!
largest diamond ever stolen
Some guy in africa : ooh i found something expensive
The british : imma take that
GIMME DAT
Like America and Mexican land
PS I'm not forgetting about the Spanish just saying it wasn't just the Europeans that did it.
@@streamerbtwa229 boo hooo Spanish people are the ones who colonised mexico. Not the fault of the british that they were advanced. You dont cry about the turks or arabs colonising just the europeans… very telling.
South africa gifted it. Gifted it! I don't understand how people can't get their head around that fact...
They didnt take it it was gifted . Tf . Everyone acts like white people are the only people to oppress
So the guy who found it had to give it to the king however, Africa doesn’t have any say in it, but if a ship with Spanish gold from years ago is recovered it goes to court
I'm from that region, and the story here is I boy found it and only then did they start the digging to hide the fact that it was taken it from him
I'm from olifantshoek , the mine is in Kimberly
South Africa was never populated by Africans it was originally and has always been a European settlement
So no... they didn't have to give it to the king. Someone bought it and gave it to them willingly. Also, it was a british owned mine in a british commonwealth colony. Without the british digging it out, it'd still be in the ground. So south africa doesn't have any claim to it. Spanish gold was Spanish gold and still is Spanish gold. They still have the same monarchy going on over there now as they did in 1650. So yeah, they should have claim over that. Unless it was mined with slave labour then there's an argument to dispute that.
@TheWinstonDouble lol, we will, take your land. we'll take your resources, and we will pay you next to nothing for something that will make us rich, and it's ok cause we didn't use you as slaves ,
That billion dollars would really help with South Africa's GDP
South Africa third world ever since that ANC took over
Yeah south Africa is an EMBARRASSMENT
Imagine alot of workers there and he's the only one who found it.
Hypocrite narrator😂
He 100% just lied. There's no way that an inspector would spot something like that if dozens, if not hundreds of workers didn't.
Yeah there go Europeans “discovering” things again. Sheesh
Workers…lol!!!
Because it’s a lie
As a South african this is not the first time the Brits have taken something from our country of extreme value
As a Zimbabwean, I couldn't agree more. The "British" Museum is filled with artefacts stolen from our continent!
Finders keepers losers weepers
@@hailtothevic As a kid learning about this in school I couldn't understand why we couldn't take it back.
I think its time Africa became united and started our own currency with fair trading. Africa will only trade with those who have something beneficial they can supply in return and that will benefit our needs.
We have all the resources, agriculture and people.
😂
They took people as well.
The queen is dead, can we have our rightful diamond back😂
This is actually a interesting story, the diamond was used as a paper weight for some time because the owner of the mine thought it was glass because a diamond can’t be that big!
Crazy how a shiny rock is so prized by humans
Very hard very shiny
Gold is more rare than garbage diamonds
It’s actually not crazy that people value beautiful things.
It is actually more than a shiny rock ...
@@audemars_piguet13more rare? Yes, more beautiful? Arguably
So private individuals found it, then the monarchy took it. What a heartwarming story
dismantle that anachronistic monarchy
Back then The British Empire felt it owned Africa and India 😢
@@tesmith47 and africans probably would've sold it for a goat. let's be real. there's a reason why africa is still... africa.
@@tesmith47you don’t know what South Africa is? It was a British settlement of white people, under British rule until 1960s. That’s why the guy that found the diamond was white. They took the diamond from one of their own territories
@@tesmith47 fred was white
I'm from South Africa. The real story is that a cow hurd keeper found it. Some English traded cows and sheep for that stone...
Really?
This diamond belongs to South Africa. How dare they took something so valuable out of the country & need not compensate the people of that nation. Sickening!
It wasn’t South Africa at the time.
It's only valuable to Europesns. Africans want food and European technology. Diamonds are not rare. Fair trade if you ask any one with common sense.
@koyotecow7102 as an African, I can GUARANTEE you we lived just fine without European Food and Technology. We did NOT beg for it in any way. It was FORCED on us.
What do you mean "To compensate the people"? How do you imagine it?
you won’t do a thing about it but cry in the comment section 🤡
Fun fact, diamonds are actually worthless in reality because corporations lied about them being rare
no they didnt. go get your own diamonds and sell them for half price if you actually believe that dumb shit
All gem-quality materials are rare. They compose just a tiny fraction of the Earth. However, diamonds actually number among the most common gems.
You Obviously have no diamonds or You can't afford them that's why you try make yourself feel better saying shit this this
Diamonds of the product of Madison avenue. They're not rare, just common since.
Exactly , go and try to sale your diamonds back to them and see what you get back! Those diamonds are worth one billion dollars today because of the story on them associated to the British Monarch…
Rick “best I could do is $64 and I’m the one taking all the risk here”
Lmao 😂😂
He does have to find the right buyer
Lol
😂👊
Frederick Wells found it, and it was “given” it to King Edward for his birthday.
Blood Diamond....
Yes , can someone please explain ?
But was found in Africa
I live in SA and have been to the mine. They have a resin lookalike of the diamond before it was cut and shaped. That thing was freakin gigantic
And I bet they didn't give nearly enough money to the guy who found it.
I'll bet dollars to donuts he got a hell of a lot more than the Country they stole it from.
@@ralphjackson8295😂💯💯
There’s actually a documentary about it. The company didn’t give Frederick Wells, a surface manager at the mine, anything except his normal salary for the discovery. Disgusted, Fred packed up all his belongings and left the mine. When his friends asked where he was going, he told them as far away from the place as he can go.
Years later, hended up settling in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a bank teller and in 1929 founded his own bank.
Today, Wells Fargo is the 4th largest bank in the US.
@@princevalencia8816 idk where you got your sources but it was william fargo that founded wells fargo bank...
What diamond
Imagine that you're exploring a diamond mine , you see something sparkling and you think it's glass?
I thought the diamond was stolen.
@@TheAnnoyingBossthat’s what uneducated people say
It's not that difficult to understand as uncut diamonds are generally dull and do not sparkle, but glass can reflect sun light. This diamond did catch the light which is highly unusual. So I can see where that man who found it was coming from. Also most diamonds are tiny and he didn't expect a diamond that big to be just sitting there.
@@STHFGDBY thanks diamond expert
@@STHFGDBY aaah, ok, understood
It should be returned to the country it came from
Why
Exactly....why? Someone had to find it first. Most people don't know the value of something until someone says it's valuable, then countries get jealous about not finding it first....by then it's placed in a museum or collection for safe keeping elsewhere. 😅
Someone is wearing billion dollar jewelry while some single mother works 3 different jobs to afford food and rent. It's not a very fair world.
Some single mother gets to lay on the couch in the evening cuddling her baby girl...
while a trafficked modern day slave girl is about to be mounted by man #8 for the night ...
So yep I see your point though
The founder got a tap on the back for his discovery....
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He actually got a good amount of money and died leaving his family a good fortune or he got his salary’s average rate and left to start the fourth biggest bank in America the people in this comment section are telling these two
Then the diamond cutter said “ sorry it’s a cocoa cola bottle “
All that finding a rare diamond just to hand it over to a rich royal. Brilliant.
Naquele tempo já existia os puxa sacos😂😂😂😂
"You just found in in the dirt "
"Yeah ,it was just sitting there ,idk nobody else saw it " .
Whenever you mention diamonds, South Africa and a white guy, you know it's blood diamond
100%! Anything taken from a colonized nation is a "blood" product. Be it diamonds, oil, gas, lithium, tantalum, or otherwise.
It literally says he found it in a wall of the mine. Do you know what a blood diamond is?
@@TheZeldaCinema Do you know what history is?
@@TheZeldaCinema'blood' diamond as in it was basically stolen from their country which was likely colonized hence the blood.
@@ronaldjamescastillo1882it actually refers to the dangerous work conditions and high death rate in natural diamond mining. This is a big reason why diamonds have their insane price. They occur naturally very often and aren’t scarce at all. He’s right though, if it was just sticking out on the surface the miners would have taken it out immediately. He likely owned or helped manage the mine. So we can safely say it probably is a blood diamond. It’s likely people died getting to the point in which he found it either way.
"It's the world's biggest diamond"
Jewelers: *"I think we should cut that up into a bunch of little pieces"*
It was actually impossible to keep it intact due to cracks in it.... The result was the best possible. Nobody wants a diamond with a straight white line in it. Diamonds are always bigger before the cutting. Funfact, the dude, who cracked it passed out under the extreme pressure he was... Why do you think they took 8 Months to plan it lol?
They cut them into equal shapes that reflect the light best and will work in jewelry and then they take the left over big chunks and make as many perfectly shaped diamonds while wasting the least of it it's not like somebody's gonna put that uncut diamond on a chain and just sell it
Yes, I know that technically it needed to be cut. Still funny though 😁
Because it was stolen and they chopped it up
@@pyromeister420 cool anecdote, that is either true or you are a very convincing liar!
So happy it was sent to England
Imagine if it remained in South Africa and what the anc would have done with it
The queen was wearing a stolen piece of diamond, and actually put it in her crown. Speaks a lot about the kingdom 😾
Stolen 😂 take the minerals out your phone and send them back.
Take your tv apart then and return all of the materials to where they came from you thief.
😂 no one cares. Loosers will always claim something was thier. You were conqur3d and given a chance to live over death.
Crazy how Europeans had to be taught everything it is to be civil from ancient Egypt, Asia & India but they claim they were the first 😂 ancient china, Africa & the ancient Mesoamericans created cities, roads, laws, civilizations, written language, gun powder, metallurgy, painting, complex mathematics, astronomy, complex architecture & agriculture/irrigation. Y’all had to be taught all of that when you were writing runes on trees & burning to death rival tribes in the snowy north. Y’all were cavemen far longer than you were “civilized”
The diamond was not stolen so F@$£ OFF
They left out the part of him brutally and violently murdering a 13 year old child miner who thought he and his family were now rich and didn't have to dig in the mud for a living anymore
It was there for billions of years. They never looked for diamonds in 100,000 years. Only when whitey came over they started digging.
Shit that never happened lol
Why you gotta lie ?
Nice imagination you have there.
Just because that kid dug that entire pit by himself in 3 days didn't give him the right....
When they started 'They found the largest diamond', I already guessed the end story 😢
Why are you crying? It looks absolutely gorgeous...
where it belongs, in Britain 😂
Fredrick wasn’t inspecting. He was stealing
"Best I can do is $100, im takin all the risk"
-Rick Harris
You know I’m going to have to frame it and it’ll sit on the shelf for at least 200 years. So yea final offer is now $95 lol
Chumlee, Stop playing with it! Put that hammer away.
Gotta love it... taking all the risk when knowing the risk is 0.00%..dishonest people really suck dyk
More like the workers found it and he took command of the situation
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Kleptomaniacs are running deep on the white... its "genetic"
It's his mine, so it's his diamonds
This comment section bugs me. The man has mining rights, yes. So technically speaking it’s his now. Then theres people saying “return it to Africa”. Like okay, so we’re communist now?
True Story: Robert Kiyosaki had a mining company in China that ended up doing so well, that, it ended on the stock exchange. Guess what? China said, thank you that’s ours now. Never got a penny from it.
So we have one group saying Nationalize the resources (communism) or
Finders keepers (he’s the guy mining it’s his)
@@Alex-sm1mbnationalize the resources sound way better lol
From what i heard he found it in his baclyard and thought it was glass
AFRICA WANTS THE DIAMOND BACK!
Well, you won't get it. Cope.
do have billions an billions for lawyer law suits I don't believe in waken up gosts ow sorry I think you mst gt start getting your team of lawyers together wish you all of the best fighting for the diamond ow sorry all the diamonds that UK,France,England sorry all of the western world's took from us don't gt me wrong I'm also from Africa but I don't its worth fighting for we must gt our act in Africa together coz we have all the goodies we have everything but our African leaders tht must pull all there middle fingers out of there asses we cn be prosperous Africa like WHT ghadaffi had planned for us,but yes who stabbed him in the his back,his own trusted brother sow its gonna be along an hard fight to get our beloved Africa working for its people a good great an simple example just look the past of DUBAI sand dunes desert as far as the eye cn see look at now,wht made them sow great an sow fast great leaders,great an not greedy leaders,don't get me wrong I'm just sad for our beloved africa🙆♂️🤦♂️🤷♀️🤔
Yep it was stolen from them
Boom 🎉
Africa? Which part? All of it?
I love how the Brits casually show off the spoils of their thievery. 😂
It was a gift, paid for by the government of transvaal.....
White man in America talking shit 😂
@@TheGuerillasHidehahahaha😂😂😂
Stop crying
Same for Americans being proud of America
Dude got his diamond jacked
so you're telling me it could have been one huge diamond but they cut into many pieces? how stupid.
Apparently the jeweler who made the initial cut was so nervous, he fainted.
A guy watching did. Not the cutter.
Guy cut a billion dollars wouldn't you
Wow!!!
Her Majesty told that story. She said the man who cut it fainted after he delivered the blow.
Fake news
It's funny how stealing is praised.
They are British bro.. according to them colonization was a favour they did to india. 🤣
Maybe you were told this world is nice and honest cause y’all be acting shocked when you find out it isn’t.
It was pulled out of a DIAMOND MINE!! That's how those work, they pull diamonds out of them... why are yall crying? It has what to do with you?
@@jacobviator3118 colonized
Tell me how it was stolen?
Man finds diamond in a diamond mine. No. WAY.
And Freddy earned 50 cents that day.
It's literally a shiny rock that someone tells you is worth millions of dollars and you accept it. It's a rock.
So True!! What I find more amazing is the fact that people believe so much that it's easier for them to ignore this very underrated post . I mean even a hammer is just iron on a stick ...but it has an actual use . Unless those diamonds are being put on some tips of cutting tools, they are practically worthless
Its an artifact, one of a kind, it will be here after you, me and all the hammers are gone.
@@loreman7267 I get that they actually have value, my point is that it's silly that people pay large sums of money for what is essentially a decorative rock if not used for industrial purposes.
Diamonds are the hardest material on earth, they actually have many uses other than jewelry. I agree with what you said, it is strange we put value in certain things and not others.
@@johnwilson3288 The younger generation of married couples wear a lot more rings with no diamonds. Interestingly, silicone rings are becoming more popular.
“Sent to London” they really want to own everything😂
If only they can lift the pyramid.
It was Africa's down-payment to the UK for the future African refugee challenge.
The British Empire was one of the most successful crime rings ever.
@@chrisest6715send them all back, but let’s keep the diamonds
the guy who found it was a British South African
Finders keepers, England should keep it
There are diamonds the size of cars in this earth, you just have to get to them
And taxpayers still fund the Royal Family. Scavengers.
I wouldn't have given King Edward a mathafuckan thing
Me either ,figures the royal family got it
They were in a British imperial state and they were trying to buy political favour. Which they received.
@jacksonwinter5110 the so called political favour was a scam ,they are still ruling the contents indirectly..but I'm sure the end of that tunnel is coming very soon.. we have started with the French people, down to the British and the rest will be scared..
Cry harder
@@jonsmith1162 I don't get it
I like how he "presented the diamond to the king"- as if that king wouldn't have just taken it anyway😂
The alien race always gets the pick of the litter
As a South African this has always greatly saddened me
I’ll bet it does bud, my heart goes out to you and your people. Your country has hands down supplied the world with greatest treasure, foods, cultures that carry on to this day, ❤and as an American I greatly admire and respect Africa and it’s people.
Vir my ook boet
I’ll be honest as a Scotsman it’s angers me what the Union and the crown has got away with. It’s atrocities in Africa, Ireland, America, even in modern day what the UK Govt does to the nations it “represents” is a disgrace. We would all be better if the union died, and the monarchy was abolished.
Should been more advanced bud
@@marcdoyle7757you are part of the union .I find it funny how you people try to distance yourselves from the crimes the UNITED kingdom commited in the past .
There is a story that when they managed to perfectly cut the diamond into the 2 pieces down the fault, that the diamond cutter fainted from relief of stress after not shattering the diamond
Shit i would too it is literally priceless. The balls that guy had to even try this is insane.
Diamonds do not shatter
@@natalyazakharova3464 they can, especially cutting down the fault line
@@natalyazakharova3464 even a simple crack could make it worthless
That was the Hope Diamond
People saying they stole it when south africa was part of the British empire lmao
Typical manager claiming they single handedly run the business.
Thieves are thieves no matter what name they chose to call themselves.
Stole from whom? The Bantu people? they stole the land just as whites did from its original inhabitants, but neither of the 2 build mines... So how was it stolen?
Oh wait right, when whites take land its stealing, when other ethnicities do it its their right to expand... I forgot this silly narrative of the victim playing idiots.
How can a country steal from itself?
History cannot be changed that They were THIEVES...and yes THIEVES are THIEVES
@@humanhuman7028 yea history can't be changed yet here you are trying exactly that. Finders keepers. If it was something cultural u would have had a point. Now u do not and sound like an idiot.
Nothing but the truth. They won't return any of it either.
You should go there and get it back!
Another fun fact. The gem cutter took 2 attempts. The first attempt to cleave failed and he passed out while making the second (successful) cut
Funny how they still say its a billion dollar while stones like this were found multiple times
And instead of leaving with it, he gave it to his boss.
I'd be like Bossman. I'm not feeling good today, I'm going to take the rest of the week off.
See ya!!
This is why when someone finds something in your house and steals it, you don't let them in again.
I had a green laser once, high powered it was badass, paid about 170$ USD for it many years ago before they were technically banned private ownership. Had a case for it and everything. I had a buddy stay with me for a week or so, known the guy 20+ yrs. He left, moved on and things were fine. Months later I went to find my laser, and it had vanished from my home. He never admitted it but I KNOW it was him..nobody else it could've been. I even gave the benefit of the doubt and didn't totally assume it was missing until I moved, packed my apartment up and it still wasn't there. Then I knew. Never trust a thief. I haven't spoken to the guy in 3 plus yrs now and could not be happier with my decision. Backstabbing POS. 😠
Give it back to South Africa ❤
It wasnt in a house. It was in the guyd mine. He gifted it to the King.
@@zealwebber8064 It didnt belong to South Africa. It belonged to the guy who owned the mine. They gifted it to the King. If you own a shop - do the items belong to you or your government?
@@cartimandua_ brilliantly said
The British must give back all those diamonds they forcefully stole in South Africa.
And South Africa needs to pay the British for building their country.
True. And who's gonna make them? 😅
Funny S. Africa was living in huts and banging tree branches for entertainment last I check.... Yesterday?
This guy. Haha.
Africans must pay back Africans if we gonna go down that rabbit hole. Why not pay back the British too. You lefties always think only white people were bad. Did you know there were massacres, rapes, slaves, genocide, etc in every population against every population? History didn’t start 300 years ago. UGH!
Dig your own diamond.
Super crazy that the team took 8 months to study it. Can you imagine coming home from work on month 7 and your wife asking you how your day was? Oh, you know, same, as the last 6 months. More studying
The Queen of England had no business wearing that Diamond.
Shame it was ever cut to begin with. Should have been saved as a speciman.
De Beers is one of the worst, most manipulative, and just one of the crappiest companies in history.
Yet, they claim to have the moral higher ground while possessing the wealth of generations of theft and deceit.
Goes for most big companies
But yeah true
Evil ppl for sure
Ask the queen family to return the diamond
You know something is wrong with a society where so many worthless things are given so much value.
Diamonds are the best scam ever!
How?
@@aureliano_37there actually common but the company who owns 75% of diamond mining oy sells a limited amount
@@aureliano_37 search up “de beers” and diamond cartels. They are very common nowadays, and you can just make them artificially by super compressing carbon.
@@aureliano_37overpriced
Right de beers is the reason all these nothing ass women wants a diamond, they put a price on it. I saw an old ad saying he doesn't love you if you don't have a diamond ring.
Rich Harrison of Pawn Stars would give you $150 as it will sit in his display case for months.
He has expenses ya know, electricity, internet, etc.
@@rickroemer8391 food
It's not real, thousand where made back in the 60s
Imagine finding that diamond.
My guy just forgot about the damn kohinoor.
Yup as i know iranians got it from defeating india in war then british just stole it in chaos of Nader shah assassination
Notice how the one who holds the Great Star of Africa is British
So those are the royal jewels Sherlock Holmes always had to find
While dude didn’t find it, one of his minions found it and the boss took credit
What about a finders fee?
Some poor fool recieved a loaf of bread for bringing the stone to he's master .
I would think the boss who OWNS the mine would take credit.
That is how a mine functions.
Do you think a industrial mine is made up of people who all just keep what they find?
We want our diamonds and other precious gems returned to South Africa
Well that was sure nice of him to give it to them for free.
I am sure he got something. People admired their monarchy back then too.
I’m willing to bet he was nowhere near the place when it was discovered
Some poor fool recieved a loaf of bread for bringing the stone to he's master .
It’s a worthless rock that we put value on
@@mattcurcic5585 slif so why not return it
@@mattcurcic5585 great way to tell us you know nothing.
@@victorhopper6774 how’s that genius? They literally have zero value and are pushed into scarcity by jewellers . Lol shows you know nothing and are arrogant enough to think you know more
Old Charlie boy inherited some nice gems didn't he.
Pirate Charlie's wealth.
Why did he turn it over to the queen? Why did she get to have it? How entitled!
he did NOT think that was a shard of glass 😭
From 3106 carats to 500 carats- the sculpter stole 75% of it for free 😂
You really didn't pay attention to the video. There were two halves. One was just over 500 carats, the other was just over 300 carats. Plus, there were several smaller stones as well. In total just under 1100 carats for all stones combined. You always lose a significant amount when cutting gems regardless to get the right facets and shape. All gems start out bigger before cut.
When the apocalypse happens, I now have a collection side quest.
😂👍
You and me both lol
If you recruit, I'm in. I have martial arts skills 😂
"Now over 1 million dollars!"
*shows 1 billion*
“Presented” to King Edward😂
Please return those diamonds to the rightful owners of that land
It is with the rightful owners.
@@cplcabsdamn right it is
South Africa is run by a bunch of racist black people at the moment, the people who really mined this diamond are oprresed now 😂
You talking here about a diamond while Russia is stealing a piece of the Arctic
Oh noo
Fredrick...who probably made .15/day, gave away a diamond that could have set his family forever
He was white. In South Africa, in a Diamond mine. He either owned the mine, was a close friend/associate to the owner or worked in the higher levels of management, he didn’t mine and made probably a lot more than .15/day
He was a moron!
@@alexanderzippel8809Federick wells was a surface manager for the mine. The mine was owned by Sir Thomas Cullinan, the man they named the diamond after. Wells was basically a middle manager/supervisor and most likely had never even met Thomas Cullinan and most likely made very little money.
@@mkp1214 probably not as a white manager of a South African Diamond minr
@@mkp1214 cullinan owned the mine why? was he black, I mean an African ???? If not, how come he owned the mine!
The queen's dress is collection of theivery from all around the world. 😂😂
Mummy, I want the largest diamond ever recorded for my birthday…yes, my king 🤴
Rick from pawn stars:
Best I can do is 2 cans of coca-cola and a piece of gum. And I'm taking all the risk here.
He was in a diamond mine, and thought he saw a piece of glass.
Love how a car show is funnier than some (most) so called comedians.
This one has always been a diamond.
Remind me to keep my mouth shut the next time I stumble onto a baseball sized diamond...
My uncle did this well working with the railroad
Well... okay then: keep your mouth shut the next time you stumble onto a baseball sized diamond...
Fr why tf would i give a shit about some privileged spoiled "king" who never did shit for me