During the Napoleonic war, Prussia issued a program that asked citizens to donate their gold jewellery, which led to a movement among the female Prussian nobility to wear black iron jewellery championed by Princess Marianne of Prussia.
When famed jeweler Harry Winston donated the 45 carat…
When famed jeweler Harry Winston donated the 45 carat Hope Diamond, valued at $200 to $250 million USD, to the Smithsonian, he simply shipped it via the US Postal Service in a box wrapped in brown paper.