Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 128
ond of Mr. Hope. A precious stone without a rival is the blue dia-mond of Mr. Hope. Its weight is 44^ carats, andits colour is the blue of the most beautiful sapphire,added to an adamantine lustre of the utmost bril-liancy. It was purchased for $83,700, but com-petent judges declare that it is… … Fig. 51.—Surfaces of Brilliants compared to their weight. The vertical linesindicate the thickness of the stone. CELEBRATED DIAMONDS. IO9 was engraved in the sixteenth century by Jacopo orComo da Trezzo; and it was set in a unique cylin-drical ring : of gold, by aid of a movable colletupon pivots.…
Precious stones · Diamonds · Gems
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
