DeYoung Red Diamond Put on Display
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PrintAn unmounted round-cut 5.03 carat red diamond, a bequest from the estate of the late S. Sydney DeYoung, is put on permanent display at the National Museum of Natural History. It is "the only diamond of its kind on view in a museum anywhere in the world," being one of only five documented red diamonds.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, "The Torch," March 1988, p. 1.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
February, 1988