The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-12

On the Value Of JeDeiry IN E1tgLaRd.-The
reviving taste for costly jewelry is noticed by the
London correspondent OF the Liverpool Times, on
a visit to one of its fashionable purveyors
"While looking in at the establishment of the
manufacturer, Mr.. Hancock, OF Bruton street, late
OF Storr " Mortimer's your correspondent picked
up some commercial information of a kind that
does MT usually find its way into the market
columns Of The Albion and which may be of no
small interest to some of your more susceptible
readers viz: diamonds are up, and going up pro-
digiously. Hancock showed the writer pair of
earrings price 10000, that would not have brought
within third OF that amount two years ago. So
with pearls and all other precious stones and the
taste IN setting is becoming correspondently ex-
travagan and the desire for out Of the-way bijou-
terle not less so, black pearls and diamonds inclu-
ded. Black, you exclaim? Yes, quite as black,
and twice as brilliant as Warren's Jet What do
you think of a little rough diamond about the size
and color OF small ebony marble, OF the value in
that state of ESQ? ana OF the worth of black pearls
you may Judge, when to one necklace composed OF
them there Is a diamond pendant, and that only
straw colored, price $500. The money value of
the stock of this kind is perfectly incredible con-
siderng the almost microscopic space it occupies,
single case exceeding 100000. These enor-
mousy costly articles, but more especially in the
dressing-case line, chiefly for the Russian
nobility, whose appreciation OF such matters is
mainly guided by the immensely of pecdniary out
lay IN their acquisition. Hence it is not unusual
for Russian prince to give E120O, and even
10000 for dressing case, which, to be sure,
when opened cut, makes whole toilet service,
covering large table, and the phiz of the Tartan
Adons is reflected to a hair a thousand times over,
in Furnished silver, and crystal and gold. Han
cock is purveyor of these and the like commodities
to the court of St. Petersburg, and hence he was
selected by the Prince DemidofF to manufacture
the sumpuous silver mess-b box that parsonage lately
presented to the Hon. Colonel Maule of the 18th
Highlanders, an acknowledgement of civilities
received from the officers while at Gibraltar. Don
Offs and Ons, and Ouskys, and Pouskys, and
Wowskys may be encountered by the dozen al
Bruton street, and there you may learn the tariff
of all the treasures of Vertu throughout Europe
from the toe of the last statue dug up at Hercula
neum, to the Cabul Mountain of Light, with the
sight whereof her Majesty now regaes her Wind
guests after dinner occasionally. 1t appear,
that its value has been even understated or rathel
the value of the set OF diamonds whereof tn,
mountain forms the centre of three for it Seems
that the brilliant either side OF it is worth EIO,
0OO Lord Normandy is the authority for the
| accuracy OF this appraisement, and more learned
connoisseur than Constantine in such matter
does MT live, though even he ehrinks from compu
ting the worth of the mountain, as something to
staggerirgIy stupendous for the pecuniary compre
tensions of Engshmen."