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27 juin 2024 · In 1947 Evalyn Walsh McLean dies, In 1949 The McLean Jewels, including the "Hope Diamond" are sold by her Estate to Harry Winston of New York. Winston displays the Hope Diamond publicly as part of the Court of Jewels, this goes on tour of the United States, Canada and to Cuba.
7 juil. 2024 · He contacted Evalyn Walsh McLean, a wealthy friend of the Lindberghs who had evinced a desire to help locate the infant, and convinced her that he was in contact with the kidnappers. Means claimed that they had asked for $100,000 and that he required an additional $4,000 in travel expenses.
25 juin 2024 · Evalyn Walsh McLean, a wealthy heiress, bought the diamond in 1912, experiencing a series of tragedies in her family before selling the diamond in 1949. Donated to the Smithsonian in 1958, the diamond traveled through the mail, bringing misfortune to the mailman involved.
27 juin 2024 · Socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean was his wife. Around 1911, the couple famously paid somewhere between $180,000 to $300,000 for the infamous Hope Diamond. (In today’s money, that would be anywhere from roughly $5.5 million to $9.1 million.)
27 juin 2024 · In 1910 the Hope Diamond was shown to an American mining heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean at Cartier’s in Paris. To make the sale, Cartier had to reset the diamond into a headpiece on a three-tiered circle of large white diamonds as McLean did not like the initial setting.
1 juil. 2024 · Harry Winston was often referred to as the King of Diamonds thanks to his knack for acquiring some of the rarest stones ever discovered, from the 726-carat Jonker to Evalyn Walsh McLean’s 94.8-carat Star of the East.
3 juil. 2024 · The division's amateur film collections include those of prominent American women, such as celebrated poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), Evalyn Walsh McLean (1886-1947), a leader in the social life of Washington, D.C., from the 1910s to her death, and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), author and social reformer, and her husband ...
