Wallis Futuna Islands Diamond Wedding 2014 Fashion Bridal Jewelry 145

 Wallis Futuna Islands Diamond Wedding 2014 Fashion Bridal Jewelry. 

By Farzana Aamir 

The diamond production of India and Brazil was soon to be dwarfed, however. In December of 1865, Erasmus Jacobs, the 15-year-old son of a farmer found a pretty stone and took it to his home near Colesberg, South Africa. The stone was given to a friend of the family, Schalk Van Neikirk, who discovered it to be a 21-carat yellow diamond, named the Eureka. It sold for £500, five times the cost of a comfortable house in England at the time.