| Book Name |
Diamonds and Precious Stones |
| Author |
Emanuel |
| published |
1867 |
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Diamonds and precious stones history, value, and distinguishing characteristics. With simple tests for their. Identificati0.v. By harry emanuel, F.R.G.S. . SECOdrD edition, with a new table of the present value of diamonds. - I867
The rapid exhaustion of the first edition, and the numerous demands for more copies, having proved to the Author that, contrary to his expectation, a plain and unvarnished statement of facts connected with precious stones has proved interesting-not only to the trader in gems, and to the amateur in mineralogy, but to the general public-he has been emboldened to publish another edition, in which he has made several important corrections and additions which have been necessitated by the course of events. The prediction of the rise in the value of diamonds has been verified, as will be seen by a comparison of the present table of values with that of the preceding edition-in spite of an unprecedented crisis and subsequent commercial depression, and notwithstanding the number of purchasers of gems must have been lessened by the ruin of the thousands of persons who, when making, according to their idea, a solid investment, were in fact only purchasing an unlimited liability. Notwithstanding this commercial crisis and depression, the value of diamonds has steadily augmented.
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