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CULLINAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 617 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CULLINAN  , a

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town of the
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Transvaal, 36 m. by
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rail E. by N. of
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Pretoria . It
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grew up
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round the Premier
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diamond mine and
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dates from 1903, being named after T . Cullinan, the purchaser of the ground on which the mine is situated . Here was discovered in
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January 1905 a diamond—the largest on record—weighing 30254 carats . This diamond was in 1907 presented by the Transvaal
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government to
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Edward VII. and was subsequently cut into two stones, one of 5162 carats, the other of 309 carats, intended to
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ornament the
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sceptre and
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crown of
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England . The chippings " yielded several smaller diamonds (see DIAMOND) .

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