Ch.24: The English Dresden Diamond, A Faultless Stone

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	208 THE GREAT DIAMONDS OF THE WORLD. It is not a little remarkable that two of the finest diamonds in the world, the " Star of the South " and the "English Dresden," should have had a closely parallel career. Both were found nearly about the same time, in the same district of Bagagem ; bought in the same city of Rio de Janeiro ; treated in the same place (Coster's Atelier, Amsterdam), forwarded through the same agency, (Mr. Dresden of London,) to the same country, India ; and there ultimately purchased by the same person, the Gaikwar of Baroda.

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