The Spoonmaker's Diamond (Turkish: Kaşıkçı Elması), also known as the Kasikci, is the pride of the Topkapi Palace Museum and its most valuable single exhibit, it is an 86 carat (17 g) pear-shaped diamond. Surrounded by a double row of forty-nine old mine-cut diamonds and well spotlighted, it hangs in a glass case on the wall of one of the rooms of the treasury. The forty-nine separate brilliants surround it, giving it the appearance of a full moon lighting a bright and shining sky amidst the stars.
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