Canadian Jewellers Association · Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co · leaf 1243
tress. No cookor housemaid can hold up her head without a diamondamong her jewels. DIAMOND CUTTING A MODERN ART. The perfectly cut and brilliant diamond the world knowsto-day is not more than fifty years old. The ancient worldknew little of diamnds. From the first Pharaoh to thelast, through all… … The Cullinan Diamond. Lower, as it appeared in the rough,weighing 3,025% carats (1|/a pounds), one-half as large again asillustration. The stone was purchased from the TransvaalGovernment in 1907, and presented to King Edward VII. It wascut into nine large stones and a number of small…
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