FLAWLESS GEMS
TWO BIG DIAMONDS FOUND ON SOUTH AFRICAN FARM Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, January 17. (Received January 18, at 12.35 p.m.) Two dramatic diamond finds occurred on a farm at Elandsfontein, three miles from where the Cullinan diamond Was found. A digger named JonOser found a flawless gem of 726 carats valued at £IOO per carat. He refused £75,000 for it. The second stone weighed 500 carats.
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Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 11
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69FLAWLESS GEMS Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 11
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