BUYING A £15,000 DIAMOND.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18430, 10 July 1925, Page 12

BUYING A £15,000 DIAMOND.

Mr do Maun, a well-known rtiMft|Kffl| cutter, visited London last month L ~.l||§B[ remained in somi-darkne>s for a BvJmIIH day in order to keep his eves in pctjmiaH condition preparatory to buying a gjflMj diamond for £-i-j,OCO. As soon deal was completed, lie told a tativo of the "'Morning Post' 5 thedtjjßP* of the transaction. JilM "There arc no cutters of large attiH nionds in England." said Mr roASSiH ''There aro only three or tour tfrim§B| buyers of very largo stones ia ohß world. "Wo come to London ererv tw|H thcro is a shipment- front the TirfmH vaal, and pick out the best this work, is so difficult that ye-MMIM to keen in semi-darkness for matjlM hours before. Tho actual sale 9i£89l takes a few minutes, but even have passed a stone as being &*tfifH there is a very grave risk that *&3«§fl discover sonic flaw in it later. I bnHH sent the £45,000 diamond t «* «H Paris, where I shall soend three examining it every day in new hSKjB beforo deciding how to cut it. MgH course, it would bo impossible folfllfl such a huge stone, even when catjfßal any one person. _ jlllH "Diamonds aro being worn in Fhßf§|M a hundred times as much three years ago. There is a lyjajjjlM boom for them, and I am hardly abfeaSH buy sufficient to cope with tho denßawPW Of course tho prices are Tory ferofH The diamond has. however, .ta** ll jBgH placo of the i>eail for tho time btmHH English jewellers complain that tSwpM are lacking in business—but tbey«m| old fashioned. AVhen Englishmen ifUfl tj> buy jewellery they go to Paritafimi Amstei'dam, where jewellers are MIMM ing fortunes. The only reason IJgHfl suggest for tho brisk jewellery wH in Paris and the dead state of MfjHSM in England is that English do not study conditions Mifficientlytißjj|W Mr do Haan said that it would jjJMMB him several months to cut this 4H9| ster diamond up. "A single slip 489 mean thousands of pounds explained. ''That is the reason wl there aro so few diamond cuttertpßßMl the world. America and all their diamonds cut from AtasH|H dam or Paris, for the gift of an cxgHgl diamond-cutter is handed down HH father to, son for long cannot he acquired without. YcattiWlflß painful oxperienco. Few peopleJßßM aro willing to run tho risks cntaUeiijlla| the buying of the monster s * one * l M^K