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Ch. 6: Diamond

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the flowers, for the purpose of cleaning, and ibr forming into seven broaches. They had some particularly beautiful bracelets: one in emeralds and diamonds; another in opal and emerald, with white enamel.
Messrs. R. & S. Garrard & Co., of London, made a sim­ilar exhibition of gems and pearls, with a profusion of bril­liants and rubies, which would occupy a full page to describe.
In the collection of Mr. Herz, in London, both in the London Exhibition—exhibited by Mr. Thistlethwayte—as well as in his private residence, I examined a very costly and unique collection of gems. The diamonds he possesses are of every shade and color, such as I have only seen in the celebrated Wernerian cabinet at Freiberg, and Abbe Hauy's, at the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, where they were in their natural state, while those of Mr. Herz are cut, and many of them set. He had a bouquet of brilliants and rubies, valued at four thousand five hundred pounds sterling, quite magnificently set; a bracelet of splendid white and large diamonds, and in the centre a yellow bril­liant of five carats weight, "which he valued at five thousand pounds sterling.
Messrs. Blogg & Martin, the diamond brokers of Lon­don, kindly opened their treasures to me, and my eyes were dazzled by three bags, weighing about five pounds . each, of diamonds; most of them cut in the East Indies, and weighing from ten to twenty carats each. They were not put in market, but kept as reserve, and the value of that lot could not have been less than half a million pounds sterling. I beheld many unique curiosities in hemitrope crystals and made diamonds; many thousand carats of rough crys­tals of diamonds, from one grain to twenty carats, all as­sorted, in packages, besides the immense valuable supply of perfect rubies of ten carats and upward. The scarcity of
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