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Ch. 60: Green Brilliant Diamond, A Relic of the Dresden Vaults

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THE GREEN BRILLIANT.
A Relic of the Dresden Vaults—Worn as a Button by the King of Saxony.
N the Dresden Green Vaults, besides the "Dresden Green," there is another green diamond, which weighs 160 grains, or about 40 carats. According to Kluge it is brilliant cut, and set à jour in a plume.* This is, no doubt, the same stone which Mawe de­scribes "a green brilliant of exquisite beauty and great size, but of irregular form." He adds that in his time, or early in the present century, " it was worn by the King of Saxony, when in court dress, as a button to the plume of his hat." It seems to have belonged originally to the Elector, Augustus of Saxony.
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