Jagersfontein Excelsior, The, the largest known diamond in existence; found in the mine of the Jagersfontein Company, Orange Free State, South Africa, June 2, 1893, and now in London, England; weight, 971 carats; color, blue white. It is almost perfect.


Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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