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Ch. 1: Cutting Diamonds

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26 DIAMOND CUTTING
"Before its final realization the quest for a Standard of absolute perfection in the cutting of a diamond has been one which ran through centuries of constant endeavor.
"Incidentally it has brought into existence that interesting branch of the trade called 'fancy cutting.' It has been responsible for many sad disappointments and disillusions. Witness in 1885 the short-lived 'Brilliant-Phare,' later revived under the name of 'Twentieth Century,' etc.
"By a stroke of genius the fundamental lines of division governing the now classical cutting called 'Brilliant' were laid down some three hundred years ago by Vincent Peruzzi, in Venice. The cutting at that period was done in crude and primitive fashion, but it paved the way towards the present high achievement.
"The latter-day Renaissance in the art of diamond cutting, credit for which is entirely due to the keen appreciation shown by the dis­cerning lovers of jewels in the United States of America, has through gradual stages of advance­ment developed the possibilities inherent in the 'Brilliant,' and has culminated in the pro­duction of an ideal stone, the cutting of which is covered by patents in the United States and in the principal foreign countries.
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