The humongous 887-carat La Gloria Emerald will be auctioned off on April 15 by New York based auction house Guernsey’s. The La Gloria is the biggest stone from the Marcial de Gomar Collection of rare emeralds, and is also one of the largest museum-quality emeralds in the world. The stone has previously been featured in a joint exhibit in 2002 with Arthur Groom & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute in New Jersey. It will be sold in New York at a live event at Americas Society at 680 Park Avenue, along with 20 other loose emeralds (both cut and rough) and 13 pieces of extraordinary emerald jewelry. Also included in the collection is the marcial de Gomar Star, one of only eleven star emeralds known to exist in the world, with the added distinction of being perhaps the only double sided star emerald in the world.
