Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 284
monds. There are also known in commerce stones cut DIAMOND-CUTTING. 263 into pendeloques or pendants, in the form of a half-pear with table and collet, covered with facets onthe collet side. They are very rare, and theirprice far exceeds that of brilliants of the sameweight. Fig. 110 represents one… … Fig. no.—Pendeloque of Tavernier. style have the form of flattened pears almost round,of a pendeloque shape, facetted both superiorly andinferiorly, and having a very small table above.M. Babinet thinks that this is the form in whichboth the Koh-i-noor and the Star of the Southshould have been cut.…
Precious stones · Diamonds · Gems
Internet Archive · Boston Library Consortium · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
