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TEE KOH-I-NOOR. TO THE EDITOR. Sip-, —In your issue of Saturday last, the 2nd inst., under headinir of News in Brief. 1 find a paragraph re the largest house for lapidaries being in Amsterdam, in which it is also stated that the famous diamond, the Koh-i-noor, or mountain of light, as it is now called, was cut. This, Sir. is an error. The said Koh-i-noor was cut in London, at the establishment of Messrs. Garrard of the ITaymarket, in the year either 1552 or 1553. The undertaking was placed by Government in the hands of a branch of my family, viz., Messrs. Coster's of Amsterdam, Paris, &c., and successfully accomplished (greatly to the surprise of leading English experts and lapidists, who had expressed an opinion that it could not be done without great risk) by an expert lapidary who came from Amsterdam for the express purpose. The late Duke of Wellington started the machinery, which consisted of an engine of six-horse power. The time occupied in cutting was three months, and the stone lost about SO carat by the operation.—lam, &c., M. De Jongh. Auckland, December 5, ISS2.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6569, 6 December 1882, Page 3
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