Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 121
gular lOO PRECIOUS STONES. form, with curved facettes, belonging to the Mar-quis of Westminster, who had it cut into its presentform. It weighs 78^ carats, and is estimated atabout $148,000. The country that is most rich in diamonds atpresent is Russia. Besides special collections of diamonds in… … Fig. 44.—The Orlow. Among the large diamonds in Russia the mostremarkable is the Orlow. It weighs 193 carats.It has, as is shown by Fig. 44, the form of a halfegg. It is one of the ornaments of the imperialsceptre. This beautiful diamond was originally from India.It formed for a century and a half…
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