{"id":219,"date":"2026-04-13T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diamandmuseum-wordpress.caprover2.kavango.nl\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:57:22","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/nl\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Geschiedenis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-base-color has-accent-3-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-0275c1fe8ab1f5429d1398e13a232ee7 is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"min-height:5vh;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-d9c913d5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:30%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fa08612f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ddf96df5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><nav style=\"font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:200\" class=\"is-responsive items-justified-left wp-block-navigation is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-49b994a3 wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Navigation\" \n\t\t data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" data-wp-context='{\"overlayOpenedBy\":{\"click\":false,\"hover\":false,\"focus\":false},\"type\":\"overlay\",\"roleAttribute\":\"\",\"ariaLabel\":\"Menu\"}'><button aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Menu openen\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-open always-shown\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.openMenuOnClick\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleMenuKeydown\"\n\t\t\t><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M5 5v1.5h14V5H5z\"><\/path><path d=\"M5 12.8h14v-1.5H5v1.5z\"><\/path><path d=\"M5 19h14v-1.5H5V19z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container hidden-by-default disable-default-overlay\"  id=\"modal-1\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--has-modal-open=\"state.isMenuOpen\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--is-menu-open=\"state.isMenuOpen\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-watch=\"callbacks.initMenu\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleMenuKeydown\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--focusout=\"actions.handleMenuFocusout\"\n\t\t\t\ttabindex=\"-1\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-close\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-dialog\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-modal=\"state.ariaModal\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.ariaLabel\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--role=\"state.roleAttribute\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-content\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-watch=\"callbacks.focusFirstElement\"\n\t\t\t id=\"modal-1-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul style=\"font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:200\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__container is-responsive items-justified-left wp-block-navigation\"><li style=\"font-size: 12px\" class=\"wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"\/contact\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Contact &amp; 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font-size: 14px; margin-right: 4px;\"><\/i>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-667b281fc2bcaf1a3b881c7cd5a4d43a wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"> <strong>Route<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-64ed63dbb406471e8c7831fdf0e0ca2a wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><a href=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/contact\/\" type=\"page\" id=\"288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Paulus Potterstraat 6 (entrance 2), Amsterdam<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-base-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4271f5640005dfb555b1a6aed1b026dd wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.588), 20px);font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:10%;line-height:1.1;text-transform:uppercase\">amsterdam city of diamonds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12220366 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div style=\"height:15vh\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-794e3cfa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1338\" height=\"994\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2026-06-08-om-14.39.16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-940\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.346343054385345;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;width:671px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2026-06-08-om-14.39.16.png 1338w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2026-06-08-om-14.39.16-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2026-06-08-om-14.39.16-1024x761.png 1024w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2026-06-08-om-14.39.16-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2026-06-08-om-14.39.16-16x12.png 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1338px) 100vw, 1338px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-e978df1f wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-202f1b8e0492ebe442ba4dc690c7764c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:10%;line-height:1.1;text-transform:uppercase\">For more than four centuries, the diamond industry has been established in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e1c9f5f3fbac61dfa701038200fe4a8b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>City of Diamonds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-b0ce3dd447cfe09d596bdc904ab25a8c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The city has called itself the \u2018City of Diamonds\u2019 since its heyday in the mid-18th century. The influx of diamond workers over the centuries was the result of war and oppression elsewhere. From 1576 onward, many Protestants and Portuguese Jews fled the Spanish (Catholic) oppression in the southern part of the Spanish Empire, making for the free cities in the North. After the fall of Antwerp in 1585, many diamond workers came from that city to Amsterdam. At the beginning of of the 17th century, Jews from Germany followed.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>In the second half of the 17th century, Amsterdam became the diamond capital of the world. From that time, the city long remained an important centre for polishing and trading. The First World War, the Depression of the Thirties and above all the deportation of the Jewish population in the Second World Ware were, however, fatal to the diamond industry in Amsterdam. Since around 1965, Amsterdam has mostly been a center of diamond trading, focusing particularly on sales to consumers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d244f7d3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e773f544 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-e1cd0a69 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-e978df1f wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2a6f1fbb3566121182ceb71535d8e2f4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1500<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-7dea8a01c93b79c4a3dd6bc805465dd4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Portuguese open the shipping route to India around the southern tip of Africa. They become the greatest importers of rough diamonds. Diamond processing and trading take place chiefly in Lisbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"803\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.jpg 527w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-8b7a050bc8d532477f676d62b9372b86 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1586<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-74ce24934b95c2986e70ad93732cd769 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">On 15th November 1586, Willem Vermaet, diamond worker by profession, has himself entered as such in the Amsterdam marriage registers. Although the diamond trade had already existed for some time, this registration is the first document to show that Amsterdam has been known as the City of Diamonds for at least four centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c78635e1431429d48a9e78f5701921c9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">\u2018Trade in the harbour\u2019, Claes Jansz. Visscher.(Collection: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-f1b11b630ee9fcff978bd574ead805ae wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1682<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-d6175265482f83ca5038bfab428a77e7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Jan Hendrik Glazemaker translates into Dutch the influential book of Jean Baptiste Tavernier and his experiences with diamonds. It is published under the title \u2018The six journeys (to Turkey, Persia and the Indies, by all the roads which thither lead)\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e2b10c3b444397ef220c73de4755cce0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Title and portrait pages, and two other pages from \u2018The Six Journeys\u2019 by Jean Baptiste Tavernier. (Private collection)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1294\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tavernier_01-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tavernier_01-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tavernier_01-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tavernier_01-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tavernier_01-1-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-f1562f7d4c469413f640ccec6cce8eb6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1750<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-8b640ee6c1e29c00655ad7de22470abf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">With so much prosperity, the diamond trade in Amsterdam was able to increase fourfold, and around 1750 six hundred families made a good living from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e3ed659b1bc8e758f6d83b895b582caa wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1767<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-3a2736a263f1cad6f8014933551889e0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">On 1st October, Gregorio Saffraz, of the Persian city Isfahan, deposited at the Amsterdam Exchange Bank a small package stamped with three red wax seals; inside it was a diamond weighing 779 Dutch grains. Some years later this stone, 198.645 carats in weight and strikingly faceted, was sold to the Russian count Grigori Orlov, who gave it to the Czarina Catherine the Great. Since then the stone, known as the Orlov, has been part of the crown jewels of Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c83077cff400c70c8eefcca50fa25491 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The diamond that Gregorio Sagffraz acquired in Isfahan, and Which was purchased in Amsterdam by Count Orloff, in rough and polished form. (Collection: Amsterdam Municipal Archives)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1290\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Orloff-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Orloff-001.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Orloff-001-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Orloff-001-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Orloff-001-768x991.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-d04d5e38754d9e7cc3175ed0ed335921 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1800<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c2eda848dbc9496b7d6f57e30cd2346d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Because of the French conquest of the Netherlands, which lasted from 1810 to 1813, imports from England, with which France was at war, were stringently restricted. In that period, it was principally the London firm Hope &amp; Co which attended to the transport of diamonds to Amsterdam. The diamond industry in the first decades of the 19th century was a cottage industry; the polishing was mainly carried out by home-workers. Women and children provided the power for driving the polishing wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-be301cd370beddb1e52aba6b08d14f0d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Burning French customs offices in Amsterdam in 1813. Litho by J.C. Greive (circa 1850). (Collection: Taxes &amp; Customs Museum Rotterdam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Douane-kantoor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Douane-kantoor.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Douane-kantoor-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Douane-kantoor-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1746749b80b8b2c945d0e9c07608c2ce wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1840<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c5617d2c41550d97c098c3503cd074d1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Foundation of the diamond company Coster. Diamant Slijperij M.E. Coster, Amsterdam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1425\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Coster-fabriek.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Coster-fabriek.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Coster-fabriek-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Coster-fabriek-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Coster-fabriek-768x1094.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2941772aba319a3d0d97059b31fd683d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1852<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-66908a17472687a4876a0583ca73d1bb wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Koh-i-Noor, before it&#8217;s recutting, was worn set in an armlet between two smaller diamonds by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1327\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-275\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KIN.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KIN-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KIN-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KIN-768x1019.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c8d101749bcba4824a1f96f7919617b6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1859<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-70b44bdecb2d93e835a1613fce62618c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Bandjermasin is closely linked with Dutch colonial history. The rough stone of 70 carats was the property of the Sultan of Bandjermasin (Borneo), but was claimed by the Dutch colonial government, together with all the other state jewels, when the sultanate was dissolved in 1859. There were repeated attempts to sell the stone after its arrival in the Netherlands, but no buyer could be found. Not even after it had been polished by the Isra\u00ebl Company into a cushion-shaped brilliant of 38.22 carats. Ultimately, the \u2018magnificent white\u2019 stone, which however is not entirely without flaw, ended up in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. It is seldom put on public display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-73690efd84d8f82d3e8f386e2e1aaeef wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1869<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-30ec8509b35639fb68c31d4b8dc71396 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">When yet again a large rough diamond is found in South Africa, in 1869, this time one of 83.50 carats, that is the start of the \u2018diamond fever\u2019. From that moment on, a horde of fortune-hunters descended on the diamond fields along the banks of the Vaal and the Oranje rivers. The giant diamond is faceted to a pear-shaped stone 47.69 carats in weight, and is known as the Star of South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-02e504583f36df002fbe8379d7283f0d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1870<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-ed6dd2dc971fdcb15f06828dc1decaf7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In 1870 the first consignment of diamonds from South Africa arrived in Amsterdam, the start of a fairy-tale period for the diamond industry &#8211; the Cape Period, which lasted until 1873. The global demand for polished diamonds exceeded the supply. There was a great need of craftsmen. The average weekly wage of a polisher could in those days amount to even ten times that of an ordinary worker. The Cape Period lasted but a few years; thereafter, the trade collapsed. Larger companies experienced difficulties. The so-called \u2018self-employed\u2019, polishers with a wheel at home, were able to produce at lower costs, and survived more easily.<br><br>Concession holders raced to be the first to take possession of one of the established diamond claims in the South African town Lichtenberg in 1926.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lichtenberg-rush.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-281\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lichtenberg-rush.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lichtenberg-rush-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lichtenberg-rush-768x645.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-0b4e3f3c6b447693462e00e5bbe750d5 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1894<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-508e623972162d861cbe2200ea5f6fda wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In 1894 the diamond workers organised themselves into a trade union. The Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkers Bond (ANDB &#8211; General Dutch Diamond Workers Union) was established, and came under the leadership of Henri Polak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/B13-540.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-285\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/B13-540.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/B13-540-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/B13-540-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-41e86c7f63d86b27ab3edf8daedae321 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1895<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e7ece98b89e38c0587937a58430d78e2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In the Jagersfontein mine in South Africa, a diamond weighing 650.80 carats is found. The firm Metz is commissioned to facet this diamond. Polisher M.B.Barends cleaves and facets the diamond into a pendeloque of 13.34 carats and a cushion shaped stone of 245.35 carats. The latter, in reference to the diamond jubilee of the English Queen Victoria, was named the Jubilee. The employers in the diamond industry formed the Amsterdam Jewellers Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2cdc1a1bd46d68be94befb1928b106e2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1900<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-71ce0eec400f8c74ebd7f5bd78528de2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">As a result of the activities of the trade union, wages were high, but profit margins were small. Trade declined. Many diamond workers emigrated to the United States or to Antwerp. Amsterdam maintains its position as a centre where, by tradition, the larger, highgrade diamonds are polished and traded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-3a106d0c077aff48483c8052f4a92400 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1903<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1fe14085753d32867a2b272d2c8bc0a7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In 1893, in the Jagersfontein mine in the South African Orange Free State, a stone weighing 995.20 carats was dug up. It has been given the name Excelsior. It proved to be the largest rough diamond in the world at that time. At the firm of Asscher, Henri Koe faceted in 1903 from 21 stones of various sizes, of which the 16 biggest have been numbered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-eb62d49cb3ec5d25c6f817f2a5494912 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1905<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-da6c752fc632095367fb9135dc10f4dc wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In 1905, Jan van Zutphen, committee member of the Diamond Workers Union (ANDB), established the so-called Copper Handle Fund, which successfully engaged in the struggle against the \u2018white plague\u2019 (TB). The fund owes its name to the copper handles to which are attached the lead drop in which the diamond is held in place during the faceting. Over the course of time, the copper handles broke. They were donated to the fund, raising a great deal of money. With this money and other donations from the diamond industry, the sanatorium De Zonnestraal, among other things, was established, where diamond workers suffering from TB were nursed.<br><br>Jan van Zutphen (1863 &#8211; 1958), founder of the \u2018Koperen Stelen Fonds\u2019 (Copper Handl Fund). (Photo from 1953)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1401\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amsterdam-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-296\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amsterdam-003.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amsterdam-003-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amsterdam-003-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amsterdam-003-768x1076.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-d82115aa9426f3ad73382b0935267f61 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1929<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-16e4784e62ed8a78e63713acfbdf4161 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Crash of 1929 and the depression which followed have a very negative effect on the diamond industry in Amsterdam. Since the trade union continues to insist on high wages, many diamond merchants depart for Antwerp (where wages are five times lower), and with them the diamond workers. The number of members of the Diamond Bourse declines by two-thirds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-03cb8f3f64622f1ffe55d0984f1a052c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1936<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e89df215f703e760c28816ddcc166aef wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">From 1935 onwards the economy picks up again, the diamond industry revives too. In 1936, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Diamond Bourse, the first Diamond exhibition in the world was successfully organised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-9996ffc9ab5aeef3468daaca3c5b15d7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1940-1945<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-98f1bb470a7f5004a047ccc9015fffda wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">During the German occupation from 1940 to 1945, the great majority of the Jewish population are deported to the extermination camps. Among them are 2800 Amsterdam diamond workers. Only 300 of them survive the camps and return to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-3afb30db7119d2a53b2de8c61bbaad2e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1945<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-4b2d612446dcc4ff1037da207ad4efaf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Of the diamonds looted during the war, a portion are traced in the years 1947- 48, and brought back to Amsterdam. With this, a start can be made on the restoration of the Amsterdam diamond industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-d281c805724f213bb3fbe9863c7d5bbf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">A portion of the diamonds stolen in the Second World War was returned in 1947. This delivery is accepted in the presence of Amsterdam\u2019s mayor d\u2019Ailly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01-0206-ZEE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-299\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01-0206-ZEE.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01-0206-ZEE-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01-0206-ZEE-768x664.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1ee57e521cd1c816cd921025ab84d4c0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1957<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-146b0fa6342eb8807b814aafddb1b362 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">From 21st June to the 14th July, a magnificent diamond exhibition was held once more, this time in the Apollo Hall, where, among other attractions, the famous Hope diamond was to be seen. The artist Eppo Doeve designed the poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-b17adda1d4e4365c56b7a02e7db32bcf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">(Collection: Vereeniging Beurs voor den Diamanthandel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-4e42164ebc7f6d45e3ecd4df26359da9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1959<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-484c524527d4ec88bd850b2151c8dfbe wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">On the occasion of the 50th birthday of Queen Juliana, the Dutch population collect money, a part of which is used for a wristwatch set with 300 diamonds. This piece of jewellery is designed and manufactured by the jeweller\u2019s house Steltman, of The Hague, while the baguette diamonds are faceted by Ben Meier of the Coster diamond polishing company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-16b3aee84261d6bcf6a5da5c6ce85fbe wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1966<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-3f67d2d98de340a194d451451ee08a92 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Diamonds were found and cut in Kalimantan (part of Indonesian Borneo) for many centuries. A famous stone was found at the end of the \u2019sixties of the last century. It weighed 166.8 carats and was called Tri Sakti after the three founding principles of the Republic of Indonesia: \u2018nationalism, religion and unity\u2019. The Tri Sakti was polished by the Asscher Company of Amsterdam into an emerald shape of 50.53 carats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-bbe950b79397c5ec7bee109ec5cf0b83 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1973<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-f72133819ec412dcb76eb0bf218d3ef2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Black jewellery diamonds are rare. Due to their limited sparkle and often great hardness, they are usually pulverised and used for industrial purposes. One of the exceptions is Amsterdam, which in 1972 was cut from a 55.85 carat stone by the Drukker company, a well-known firm in the field of industrial diamonds. The pear-shaped diamond weighs 33.74 carats and was the showpiece at the great diamond exhibition in Amsterdam in 1973. In 2001, the stone was auctioned at Christie\u2019s for a price of $ 352,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1ea332581c2b086a5631e86547b6c079 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1979<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-b8b7b1f6c099c7c914a744a58c051cc0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Black Rembrandt is the largest polished black diamond in the world (42.7 carats) and is regarded as the hardest ever cut. It took the Dutch polisher Frederik van Nuss more than three years to apply the 57 facets. The stone was found in Za\u00efre in 1979 and when rough weighed 125.3 carats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-fa9e702661e4e45751ed15dd0ead7782 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1986<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-bcaacef6cd1a808e3562c6891eaf18bc wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In 1986 Amsterdam\u2019s four centuries of existence as City of Diamonds were commemorated. In the capital, the commemorative monument the A\u2019damant was erected, designed by the graphic artist Joost van Santen, as a tribute to all the thousands of diamond workers and merchants who have contributed to Amsterdam\u2019s having such an excellent reputation in the world of the diamond. Amsterdam Diamond Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/21-0206-ZEE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-311\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/21-0206-ZEE.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/21-0206-ZEE-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/21-0206-ZEE-768x559.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-badb303dbccc9200a35ababd7fc0f586 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1989<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-78363c012d7f49a8d31c283d7fc04bda wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Diamond Bourse was moved from the old building on the Weesperplein to a floor in an office block in the new district Amsterdam South-East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nieuwe-beurs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-314\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nieuwe-beurs.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nieuwe-beurs-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nieuwe-beurs-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-60714d7c48adea23c9ca03c817b4c14e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1997<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-11d785e1a7d5d9c7c78b790975a928d9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">For the first time, the Amsterdam diamond merchants collectively receive more than a million visitors to their showrooms. Amsterdam is Europe\u2019s fourth most-visited tourist city.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-e978df1f wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b8e344d7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-559c918bcd3c86c93eed311397779ece wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1576<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-10ffd96284dc88b0231b558d63469066 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Spanish Fury &#8211; a mutiny of Spanish troops who plundered Antwerp &#8211; and the fall of Antwerp in 1585 caused an enormous exodus of the population. Some settled in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, and especially in Amsterdam. Among them were diamond workers.\u2028\u2028\u2018During the Spanish Fury\u2019, master from Antwerp, late 16th century. (Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b8e344d7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-8aba0e7134ffa1f75afad46b7c6b0e60 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1580<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-0df774077c18f515f3e1840aa241019c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Portugal is conquered by Spain. There commences a migration of Jews to the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands, where freedom of establishment and worship are guaranteed. They are not permitted to join a guild, however, and are only admitted to the \u2018free\u2019 professions. One of these is the diamond industry. Many settle in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"658\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ada.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ada.jpg 658w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ada-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b8e344d7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-f93cdb8271df7c321eb8ef01511aa43f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1636<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1d99cb849b12b86ba3cf6d53dea4f527 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Until roughly 1730, diamonds came principally from India and were initially transported via Lisbon to Antwerp (the older and more important centre of the diamond trade) and Amsterdam. From 1636 onwards, the United East-India Company took over the import. And with that, Amsterdam\u2019s importance as the City of Diamonds increases. After 1668, importing was left to the English and London became the most important place for the import of rough diamonds. Processing continues to take place mainly in Antwerp and Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-fb8b6b434760d1176737c86843b2f285 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">\u2018Handel in de haven\u2019, Claes Jansz. Visscher. (Collection: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/prent_amsterdam-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/prent_amsterdam-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/prent_amsterdam-1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/prent_amsterdam-1-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b8e344d7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-5dfaba7ed681327a84ff111829f60372 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1685<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-7abbc48ba592dc03d89e30c58533fa9e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In France, King Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes. Thereby, Protestants are outlawed. All 75 master diamond polishers leave the country and settle in Amsterdam.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-4632501ac8d8ee6851db53060d5aa889 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1727<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-5a42bde195622e7fb70a75dbfbb304d2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Until 1727, diamonds came principally from India. In that year, however, diamonds were found in Brazil too, and in 1735 the Dutch succeeded in obtaining the sales monopoly for Brazilian diamonds. That meant practically the entire world production, because the mines in India were then hardly producing anything at all any longer, and the diamond finds elsewhere, such as in Borneo, were not particularly large either. With these imports, Amsterdam &#8211; at the expense of Antwerp &#8211; became the most important polishing and trading city of that period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-9cc62aa817dee7b246fd4f979b0fc3d4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Slaves wash diamond-bearing rock under the supervision of slave drivers, anonymous, late 18th century. (Collection: National Library, Rio de Janeiro)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1403\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brazilie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brazilie-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brazilie-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brazilie-1-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brazilie-1-768x1078.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-712ef0d1e2000a437969f460c0447eda wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1791<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1b5693180e78ea6441bd8afdcff2b192 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Amsterdam banking firm Hope &amp; Co. becomes the sales agent for Brazilian diamonds for the Portuguese leaseholder Joachim Pedro Quintella. In 1794, the firm was established in London. It was the banker Henry Philip Hope who in 1830 bought the famed blue diamond which was named after him: The Hope.<br><br>The Hope banking family resided in a large canal house in Amsterdam since 1722. Ownership of the Hope &amp; Co Bank Transferred into English hands in 1813. (Collection: Amsterdam Municipal Archives)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-51c1f650e1f6599ad80247571bb4e101 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1.1.29_grijswaarden-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1.1.29_grijswaarden-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1.1.29_grijswaarden-1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1.1.29_grijswaarden-1-768x581.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1cf3ac0699f7322df4588080afed47eb wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1822<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-d6e60afd7c483355c71ad94db6dc2636 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The first polishing factory was built in which the polishing wheels were driven with the aid of horses. The cleaving and bruting of diamonds remained a cottage industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1746749b80b8b2c945d0e9c07608c2ce wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1840<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-0cc6215dd7b60512ca50f94f069a1834 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The first steam driven polishing factory was established by diamond company Hont in the Rapenburgerstraat. Establishment of the diamond polishing Coster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-547a9c824720c952654dc701b4f8b2ed wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Steam-driven machines propelled the industrial revolution. Diamond polishing factory M.E. Coster, Amsterdam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/stoommachine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/stoommachine-1.jpg 932w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/stoommachine-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/stoommachine-1-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c688c4222ec66b091522a5229ef6e481 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1844<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-17b9b1a8e6a43c0074f6d12208585e5f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">New, rich, diamond mines are opened in the Brazilian province of Bahia. Large scale imports get underway, resulting in a strong revival of the diamond industry in Amsterdam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-029d63ca35ac402c57d222bccf104312 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1845<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-5b7e4c3342464530c5a32e079af07483 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The Diamond Polishers Association is set up, in which nearly all Amsterdam diamond merchants &#8211; also called jewellers &#8211; participate, and from which the independent polishers can hire polishing wheels. The firms Arons and Coster remain outside this association. The participants in the Diamond Polishers Association undertake to have their diamonds polished by the independent polishers, in one of the Association\u2019s polishing factories. In order to bind the independent polishers to the Association, the Diamond Polishers\u2019 Fund is established, to give aid in the event of sickness, old age or invalidity, and to provide benefits to widows and orphans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2941772aba319a3d0d97059b31fd683d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1852<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-aae3e653a84639600dfe548e5a8b649d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In the workplace of the English court jeweller Garrard in London, on Friday 17th July, the Dutchmen L.B. Voorzanger, a polisher by profession, and the girdler J.A. Fedder, both of the firm Coster, commenced the delicate work of re-faceting the 186-carat Koh-i-Noor, in order to lend a more beautiful brilliance to this historic diamond.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VF.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-274\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VF.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VF-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VF-768x532.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e7e7ce75a26ed185271a38e99799ea2f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1853<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c1ff2c4c5adb03df1a04eb60c0b7be2d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">A year after a diamond weighing 254.18 carats was found in the Bagagem mine in Brazil, the firm of Martin E. Coster was charged with the task of faceting the stone. After three months, the result was the 128.8-carat Star of the South, which, partly through the craftsmanship of polisher Voorzanger, displays a rosy glow from a certain angle. For his craftsmanship, during the Paris World Fair of 1855 Voorzanger received the silver medal as \u2018contre ma\u00eetre\u2019, or foreman.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1424\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Star-of-South-Africa-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-276\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Star-of-South-Africa-002.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Star-of-South-Africa-002-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Star-of-South-Africa-002-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Star-of-South-Africa-002-768x1094.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-773db8944c57565c74330a88176d5445 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1867<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-96ef5740d9f5889a76a8d97b715eabbe wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The first large diamond found in South Africa was called Eureka. (Greek for \u2018found\u2019). That was in 1866. Only two years later, when a second, even larger stone, the Star of South Africa, was found, the great diamond rush broke out. The Eureka weighed 21.25 carats and was presented to the public at the World Exhibition of 1867 &#8211; 1868 in Paris. Afterwards it was cut into a brilliant 10.73 carats by Martin Coster. In 1966, a hundred years after its discovery, Harry Oppenheimer, director of De Beers, bought the Eureka from its private owner. In 1983 he offered it to the people of South Africa. It was initially exhibited in the parliament building, but can now be seen in the Mine Museum in Kimberley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-51c1f650e1f6599ad80247571bb4e101 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-147cf1bb5cfe7283b83f86c80f05162f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1879<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c80c1126c047d7ea8ff66543196f4244 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">As a National Tribute to Queen Emma, the firms Jitta and La Chapelle created a rivi\u00e8re (necklace) with 34 brilliants, and a brooch with 214 diamonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-51c1f650e1f6599ad80247571bb4e101 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-8430a5ae4bccf5c715e5760d2753758f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1889<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2115dfa6fe4ac041ffc151a177c5c0ee wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In the 1870s, in Amsterdam, the first diamond trading association was established in the building known as Het Vosje, on the Rokin. In 1881 the Central Diamanthandelsbond (\u2018Central Diamond Trades Confederation\u2019) was established on the Nieuwe Herengracht, followed by the Vereeniging Beurs van den Diamanthandel (\u2018Association of the Diamond Trading Bourse\u2019) on 11th December 1889, the first diamond exchange in the world. Even at that date, 331 members were registered. By 1907 that number had already grown to 1000. In 1990 there were 200 members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-4144b599fe939239400bdec2908ab9d5 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The \u2018Vereeniging Beurs voor den Diamanthandel\u2019 (Association of the Diamond Trading Bourse) originally met de Casino building on Waterlooplein in Amsterdam. (Collection: Vereeniging Beurs voor den Diamanthandel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1633\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VDH.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-282\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VDH.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VDH-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VDH-627x1024.jpg 627w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VDH-768x1254.jpg 768w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VDH-941x1536.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-8edfdcbce1e1f205242018dd62fa6389 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1901<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-71ce0eec400f8c74ebd7f5bd78528de2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">As a result of the activities of the trade union, wages were high, but profit margins were small. Trade declined. Many diamond workers emigrated to the United States or to Antwerp. Amsterdam maintains its position as a centre where, by tradition, the larger, highgrade diamonds are polished and traded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1235\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-294\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina-001.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina-001-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina-001-829x1024.jpg 829w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina-001-768x948.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-df9dff6a5d85e49c8798afa69ff754b8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1908<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1c0de35540686f7fdca9dbd5f2affcf7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In 1905, in the South African province of the Transvaal, a rough diamond was found &#8211; the largest ever discovered in the world to the present day. The Cullinan, named after the director of the mine, weighed 3106 carats. The firm Asscher was commissioned in 1908 to cleave and facet the \u2018Cullinan\u2019. That resulted in 96 small and 9 large stones, of which the Cullinan I or Great Star of Africa &#8211; with a weight of 530.20 carats, the second-largest cut diamond in the world &#8211; adorns the top of the English royal sceptre.<br><br>The Diamond Bourse on the Weesperplein in Amsterdam. (Collection: Vereeniging Beurs voor den Diamanthandel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-51c1f650e1f6599ad80247571bb4e101 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-67a09ef9abb07c6c26eb32dd4d8c2b2c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1911<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-f26806ff114fe1570c33598286e160ce wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">On the Weesperplein, on 18th September 1911, the Bourse for the Diamond Trade was opened, a building designed by the architect Gerrit van Arkel (1858 &#8211; 1918).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/beurs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-297\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/beurs.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/beurs-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/beurs-768x568.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-5d41d26e4303d2986938f703743a68c2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1925<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-15cf054c87fbf93ae6e59b6f9a81ce14 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">At the Paris Exhibition of Art &amp; Industry, the Diamond Trading Company of F.Friedman &amp; Co. displays a perfect cushion-faceted diamond weighing 137.92 carats. This diamond was named the Queen of Holland, most likely in honour of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, which took place in 1923.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1388\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QOF.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-298\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QOF.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QOF-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QOF-738x1024.jpg 738w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QOF-768x1066.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-6eb8d412fb2aff470ecf4b1b3f3e22ef wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1949<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-08c2b33d15928131003eed95e735da0b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">In 1949 a great exhibition was held in the Diamond Bourse in order to focus attention on Amsterdam as the City of Diamonds. It is visited by 80.000 people. The diamond industries of Amsterdam and Antwerp experience much competition from the new industry in Israel, where people work for lower wages, and for longer hours.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-32097729e3a7cd3c3630047dca8a6f6e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1955<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-d3a5c13fd430e30e10c6ec72ada4787f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The firm Van Moppes is the first diamond merchant to begin the sale of diamonds to tourists. The tourists were first provided with a conducted tour of the polishing factory, and were subsequently given the opportunity of purchasing diamonds. In the years thereafter, the other diamond merchants follow this example. Partly due to the city\u2019s great appeal for tourists, these companies draw nearly a million visitors annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Moppes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-301\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Moppes-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Moppes-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Moppes-1-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-0e6af41ccab0cd9637799c39d4853616 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1975<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-570f7f4c79e19e0b217c0c265fcc4d69 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">From a 205-carat rough diamond, the firm Drukker polishes a 3 mm-thick round diamond, with a weight of 13.5 carats and a diameter of 18 mm. In 1978, this diamond was shot into space as the window of the spacecraft Pioneer Venus.<br><br>The Venus Pioneer Spacecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1266\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KSC-78P-0171-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-307\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KSC-78P-0171-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KSC-78P-0171-1-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KSC-78P-0171-1-809x1024.jpg 809w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KSC-78P-0171-1-768x972.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-fa9e702661e4e45751ed15dd0ead7782 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>1986<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-8febedb5676266af94b92a8236140572 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">The four largest diamond merchants of Amsterdam &#8211; Coster, Gassan, van Moppes and Stoeltie &#8211; establish the Amsterdam Diamond Foundation. Until 2003 it engaged in the promotion of Amsterdam, City of Diamonds.<br><br>Amsterdam Diamond Foundation Poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-51c1f650e1f6599ad80247571bb4e101 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1371\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/24-0206-ZEE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-312\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/24-0206-ZEE.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/24-0206-ZEE-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/24-0206-ZEE-747x1024.jpg 747w, https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/24-0206-ZEE-768x1053.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e1fc80d467184d5cd2c916d3d8edf2ff wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\"><strong>2007<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e3987c9e9301f71ecb83c04b9688c239 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300;line-height:1.6\">Opening of Amsterdam Diamond Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/diamondmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMGL6754.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-accent-1-border-color wp-image-317\" style=\"border-width:1px\" 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