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Showing posts with label fictional gemstones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fictional gemstones. Show all posts

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Fictional Gemstone | The Pink Panther Diamond

Pink Panther was a 1963 comedy film directed by Blake Edward , produced by Martin Jurow and starring David Niven and Peter Seller.

It is about the adventures of Inspector Jacques Clouseau (played by Peter Seller) and his attempt to locate The Pink Panther Diamond.

The story begin, when Lugash Princess Dala's (played by Claudia Cardinale ) father gives her a gift the largest diamond in the world, The Pink Pather. The diamond has appeared to be a pink panther. When Princess Dala is a young woman they seize her power and are eager to return the jewel.

The Pink Panther is a large valuable fictitious diamond which is the "MacGuffin" of the first film in the series. It is a diamond which gets its name from a flaw in its structure which is shaped like a pink-colored panther The title of the Pink Panther is supposedly a diamond containing a flaw on which image of the "leaping panther" which can be seen in the certain way. The camera zooms in the diamond to reveal the blurry flaw which focuses into the Panther.



It is the world's most famous pink diamond. The pink diamond shown in our photograph, valued at £7,500, as "The Pink Panther Diamond" .Agatha Christie wrote a book about it which was turned into a Peter Sellers film, followed up by a recently released new version, soon also on DVD

Resources : Wikipedia | Pinkdiamonds

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Fictional Gemstone | Master Emeralds as fictional emerald in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games


The Master Emerald is a large, green, fictional emerald depicted in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, cartoons and comic book series. The origin of master emerald that it was resides in a shine on Angel Island , guarded by Knuckles the Echidna.It controls the power of the Chaos Emeralds. Knuckles the Echidna is in charge of protecting it from people like Doctor EggmanRouge the Bat.

Origin in the games


The Master Emerald has unbound power, and is used to keep the Angel Island afloat in the sky. It has the power to control fully everything that the Chaos Emerald do and possesses the ability to both negate and empower the Chaos Emerald, meaning it can stop the energy of the Chaos Emeralds, or enhance them, as seen in Sonic Adventure and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Resources : Master Emerald

Monday, August 27, 2007

Fictional Gemstone | Klopman diamond , as legendary diamonds subject of a joke


Klopman diamond is a legendary and huge diamonds associated to have a curse.

The Klopman Diamond was used as a running gag in the animated television show Garfield and Friends. The Curse of Klopman is an episode of Garfield and Friends that were originally aired on October 28, 1989.





Origin of the Klopman diamond


The Klopman diamonds was originally the subject of a joke, a typical version of which is:

A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen.

He asked her about it.
"This is the Klopman diamond," she said.

"It is beautiful, but it's like the Hope diamond; there is a terrible curse that goes with it."


"What's the curse?" the man asked.
"Mr. Klopman."


The name "Klopman" was a dark humor and characterized as Yiddish in origin. The fact that it was one of Myron Cohen's standard and the commentators maintain the names and point to the fact that this joke has survived essentially for decades.

Resources : Klopman Diamond - Wikipedia | Klopman Diamond - AllExperts