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Ch. 10: Gem Cutting Engraving

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272                          PRECIOUS STONES.
tive form received from the splitter, he is shaping the facets of the brilliant or the rose.
The work requires great muscular force, and the hands of the cutters have to be supported by gloves—we might almost call them cases—of stiff leather. These gloves are seen in Fig. 117, which
represents the tools necessary to the work-table of the cutter.
A diamond, in the hands of the cutter, has not yet become an object of beauty; it has no lustre or transparency, and is even more unpromising in aspect than the rough diamond. The adamantine lustre, which is one of its special beauties; its trans-
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