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In 1961 the country Tanzania , in east Africa , gained its independency. This brought a flood of geologists and explorers from all over the world, eager to find the rumored wealth of gems supposed to be there. One of these prospectors was Manuel D. Souza, a tailor from a Portuguese colony on the southwestern coast of India. He had always dreamed of striking it rich in the bush and when some Masai tribesmen bought him some blue stones, he was disappointed because they were not sapphires. Thinking they might still be some value, he staked a claim and went to register them. Soon others staked claim and shortly after the blue zoisite had taken the gemworld by a storm. Tanzanite is a rare and unique gemstone displaying a property known as trichroism. This means that the stone gives off different colors when viewed from different directions, or axes. One axes is Blue, another one is violet and the third gives a bronze color. The color displayed by the cut stone is determined by the cutter, and the way he orients the stone.
For this reason Tanzanite can be cut by only the most skilled cutters.
Weight of the original diamonds 105.60 cts. This diamond also has a fabulous legend that goes back to 1300 telling the owner of the kohinoor could rule the world. It belonged to the Shah Jehan and in its original cutting weighed 186.00 cts. The East India Company came into possession
of the diamond in 1849 and it was given as a present, the year after, to queen Victoria. The queen had it cut in Amsterdam in a beautiful oval shape of 105.60 cts. And today it still adorns the crown of the queen mother and is among the British crown jewels in the tower of London.
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