Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-21 | Page 13 | Sancy Diamond's History is Strange

'm oiioiD's 1 WOIIME 1 Jewel Worn by Charles the ! Bold Was Lost on Battle- ; field of Graussen. ! FOUND BY A SOLDIER j First Sold for a Florin, Gem ji Is Now Worth Proverbial j King's Ransom. I Special Cable to The Tribune. If PARIS. Sepu L'0. Experts havo been 'If Indulging in conskloiablo polemics of late I I as to whiit lias become of cortaln fa- HI mous diamonds, one of which is a cele- j bra ted gem s;ild to have been lost by th H 1 Duke of Burgundy when bo was killed !? in the battle of Nancy. The other Is an IIP equally famous diamond worn by Charles I' the Bold at the battle of Graussen. Th M l SLe,r accor,flInF to Jrudltion, was E Picked up on the battlefield by u soldier. fi t nvres at Nancy, but its subsequent his- n?Iy .' n,ot ,J"ow- The other was I also pifkPd up on the battlefield bv a f Swiss soldier, but was sold lo a priest K for a florin. This diamond, it is raW, rl la 1 the famous Sancy diamond, which 1-: m stiJN-or at least, till very recently was I f !,ti Russian lady, Prin- f cess Paul DcmJdoff. jn l Lost for Years. ! hr'Tn; Iorea- ' special article In ll bought the Jewel from tho Swira soldier M for one tloiin. gold it afterwards for f.vy 'Mi Umo, but turned up again In 15S9, wh.-n Hi VZJ?3 ,h, thc Possession of Antony, the Ml prior of Crato who gave It as a pledge I S ?marlcyle fai'?c". treasurer-general of t Kl I Franco, after whom It finally came to IS II be named Suncy purchased the diamond Mil for tho sum of 100.000 Tournols llvres IS I irT if1"0'1 bi thc family until Hni 119 1 ill of France asked to borrow it, to give Ml It ns a pledge for -a corps of Swiss jn r- ffflHI cciu'iic.j that, was to be formed. Tho If? I scriaii'. entrusted with It disappeared. IMEw am; Jny a long time It was not known B? f wlm. ,iad becomo of him. It was dls- BKl covered nt last that he had been mm- HI dcrcd, but before the robbers killed him WiW no had had time to swallow the dla- monu. the body wan unearthed, and tlif lifl olnmond was found Intact nnd restored BIS to tho Honey family. R j Price Rises Rapidly. HI Later on Baron de Sancy, embassador 1B of ! ranee, disposed of It to James JI uf M England who in turn sold It to Louis M Aiy. when he was an exile at St. Oer- nl nialn, for o'.OOO French llvres. During IS the revolution it was stolen, .but recov- f5E ered. and sold for 500,000 silver roubles. 18 1 This is the rirst time, it seems, that thr- II bancy diamond has been Identified as the Isfl diamond worn in his helmet by Charles KM the Bold at the battle of Graussen. KI