Top 10 Most Famous Individual Sapphires

The Top Ten

1 The Stuart Sapphire

It was set in Queen Victoria's State Crown

2 The Star of India

It's a gorgeous milky greyish-blue sapphire with a well defined star (size of a golf ball).

3 The Grand Sapphire of Louis XIV

4 The Gordon Star Sapphire

5 The Queen Marie of Romania's Sapphire

It's very large - the 4th largest blue sapphire in the world.

6 The Logan Sapphire

7 The Black Star of Queensland

8 The Bismark Sapphire

It's a deep blue sapphire found in Burma and sold in Sri Lanka that was set in a necklace designed by Cartier.The piece was a gift to the Smithsonian Institute by Countess Mona von Bismark in 1967. One of Mona's husbands was Count Albrecht Edzard von Bismarck-Schönhausen, a grandson of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

9 The Star of Adam

10 The Star of Bombay

A violet-blue star sapphire originating from Sri Lanka.

The Contenders

11 The Nathan Sapphire

BAdd New Item