Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 295
keeps the key. All these coffers, eachwith its number, are shut up after working hours ina large strong safe, and distributed to the work-men every morning. When the work is finishedthe large stones are weighed singly, the smallstones in the lots, to see what the loss has been, 18 274 PRECIOUS… … Fig. ii8.—General View of the Pollshing-room. brilliant of five hundred to the carat, or still more,a rose of a thousand to the carat, are very smallobjects, it often happens that they are lost in thecourse of the manipulations they have to passthrough. The floor, and the dust upon it, are then…
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