FAKE DIAMONDS
JEWELLERY TRADE UPSET The Jewellery trade and the pawnbroking' industry in England are seriously perturbed at a sudden outbreak of diamond-faking. This consists of dipping inferiorstones into an aniline dye solution so that a film of blue covers the back facets. Thus a “yellow” or poor quality stone is transformed into a jewel of apparently high value. The only means of detecting tire fake is by a thorough washing; in hot water. “There is evidence of a su'blen flood of these doctored stones ou the market,” Mr C. W. Oak, secretary of the National Pawnbrokers’ Association, told the “Sunday Chro.’icle.” “Inferior quality stones, suitably treated, are being pledged as highclass diamonds in many parts of the country.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 7
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119FAKE DIAMONDS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 7
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