Star of the South

It has passed through the hands of many owners, including the Maharaja of princely Baroda State in India,[2] and its last known purchase was by Cartier, the French luxury jeweler around 2002, when it was sold to them by Rustomjee Jamsetjee of Mumbai.

It was handed over to her master, Casimiro de Moraes, who rewarded her for finding the diamond by granting her freedom and a pension for life.

[3] It was then cut into an oval cushion shape by a cutter named Voorzanger, renowned for having been one of the two men who refashioned the Koh-i-Noor.

[5] It was purchased by Halphen and Associates of Paris, a syndicate of diamond merchants, who named it Estrela do Sul, or Star of the South.

The Pittsburgh Press reported in 1927, the diamond necklace which contained the Star of the South diamond, as a part of the royal collection worth $10,000,000 at the time, housed in the Nazarbaug Palace in Baroda; another important part of the collection was a cloth embroidered with precious stones and seed pearls, made to cover the tomb of Mohammed.

[6] In 1948, the Maharani Sītā Devī, was photographed wearing the necklace at her husband Maharajah Pratāp Sinh's birthday party.

The diamond was last seen worn by Sheikha Moza of Qatar, who is said to have purchased it from Cartier, at the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan to Rajwa Seif in 2023.

At the time of discovery, the diamond had a rhombic dodecahedral form with obtuse angles and twenty four facets.