Dresden Green Diamond
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The Dresden Green diamond is a 41 carat natural green diamond, which has a historical record dating to 1722, when a London news-sheet carried an article about it in its Oct 25-27th edition.
It is named after the capitol of Saxony, Germany where it has been on display for most of the last two centuries. It did make some sojourns following WWII, to the Soviet Union until 1958, and to the Smithsonian in Washington DC , USA where it rested near the Hope diamond.
The stone is being used to compare natural versus lab-produced green diamonds. It is hoped to devise a test to differentiate between naturally green diamonds, which are quite rare, and lab-produced ones.
