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Ch. 10: Gem Cutting Engraving

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DIAMOND-CUTTING.
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intopendeloqucs or pendants, in the form of a half-pear with table and collet, covered with facets on the collet side. They are very rare, and their price far exceeds that of brilliants of the same weight. Fig. 110 represents one of the pendeloques which Tavernier saw in India, and which its pos­sessor would not part with for $11,160.
Another special form of cutting is that which was employed for "the Sancy." Diamonds cut in this
style have the form of flattened pears almost round, of a pendeloque shape, facetted both superiorly and inferiorly, and having a very small table above. M. Babinet thinks that this is the form in which both the Koh-i-noor and the Star of the South should have been cut.
There is also the Star, invented by Caire, and but little used. It was designed in order to take
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