Sapphires Are in Favour
The sapphire has lately been the most popular engagement ring stone. Prince George’s choice of a Kashmir sapphire therefore confirms a very general taste, states an English writer. In spite of this, the emerald still holds an honoured place, and this was the choice of Lady Max Abel-Smith. The ruby has generally been the preferred stone of the Rothschild family and bccamo greatly popular in "Victorian days among people of wealth. Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to find a fine ruby of seven or eight carats, and stones of nine of ten carats are almost impossible to acquire to-day. The Kashmir sapphire is the finest. It has the advantage of not being too dark (there is a popular fallacy that very dark sapphires arc the best), and the Kashmir, unlike the Bunnah, does not appear black in strong artificial light. The colour of the Kashmir is best described as being the blue of the cornflower.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 248, 24 October 1934, Page 2
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