It was reported in 1822 that a violet-coloured diamond had been purchased by George IV for £20,000 (equivalent to £2,300,000 in 2023)[2] and that Mr. Eliason of Hatton Garden was setting it.
His death was reported in the New Times (London) on 19 December with the following short obituary:Died yesterday, at his house in Hatton-garden, Daniel Eliason, Esq., the eminent diamond merchant, in the 71st year of his age.
By his death many charitable institutions are deprived of a benevolent and valuable subscriber, more particularly the Jews Hospital, Society for the Relief of Foreigners in Distress, &c.&c.
It is often pointed out that this date was almost exactly 20 years after the theft of the French Blue, just as the statute of limitations for the crime had expired.
Eliason killed himself some months afterwards, but before he did so he sold the diamond (this was in about 1830) to Henry Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey.