Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1919 — One More Great Diamond. [ARTICLE]

One More Great Diamond.

Since Captain Wells picked up the 20-ounce* crystal on Tom Cullinan’s field in the Transvaal in 1905, the Cullinan diamond weighing 3,025% grains uncut, there has been no new addition to the roll of the world’s big diamonds until the just reported finding of a 388% carat stone at the Jagersfontefn mine on Orange river. This is a true “Jager” Irf the language of the trade, a soft blue-V’hite, and said to be nearly perfect. What cutting will do with It can hardly be guessed. In cut form the weight of historic diamonds, barring the Cullinan, ranges up from the far-famed Kohlnoor, 106% carats, to the Nizijm, 277 carats. The Jubilee is 239. the Victoria 288%, the Regent or Bitt, 146.