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| Card #37 - Founder: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier | |
 
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[edit] Summary
French explorer and diamond hunter Jean-Baptiste Tavernier took several trips to India in the 1600s and came into contact with some of the world's most incredible diamonds: the Koh-i-Noor (Mountain of Light), the Florentine, and the Tavernier Blue, which became the Hope Diamond. Tavernier was a Tomas and had the Tomas wanderlust. The Tomas branch paid for his journeys, but why? What was Tavernier really looking for?
[edit] Top Secret
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Journal
circa 1600s
Florentine
Belongs to the
Grand Duke
of Tuscany,
for now...
"Tavernier"
More dangerous
than anyone could
understand
