Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-27
BOGUS BRILLIANTS,
People VINO Wear Imitation Diamonds
COnEfessman's "Spark"


People VINO Wear Imitation Diamonds-A
COnEressman's "Spark"
Cincinnati Times-Star.
"How do your diamonds compare with
the genuine ?"
"Put them side By side and you can't
tell them apart. Let me show you sam
pies. and the dealer turned to his iron
safe and got out box Of unset dia
mons of about three carats each. Hand
ing the scribe dainty pair of tweezers, he
requested him to examine the stones be
fore the light. The reporter picked up
were $50, 600 stone, and held it before
his optics. 1t sparkled brilliantly, was
cut perfectly and anybody but an
expert would suppose it to be genuine
diamond. The reporter was tempted to
slip the stone up his sleeve, until he asked
the price of it, when getting the reply
"S1, he dropped it as though it was
poisonous. "IIere are some thirty beauti-
full specimens" remarked the merchant as
he unfoldcd another paper and laid before
the scribe half dozen stones about the
size of Il door knob. "These are worn
principally by gamblers, on account OF
their extraordinary size.
They come great deal higher than
those others l have shown you. sell
these at $3.50 apiece, or pair of them for
a seriO-comic singers earrings at S4.21-
They are exceedingly brilliant, you see,
and at night shine like locomotive head
light. Here are lot Of little diamonds
that sell from 25 to IS cents each" Are
those made Of paste or fish scales? ~ "Oh,
no never deal in paste goods. These
stones come from the Sierro Nevada noun
tains, and are cut and polished in New
York, and some are even sent to Paris to
be cut and are then returned to this coun-
try. They are the best imitation Of the
diamond made, and retain their brillancy
forever. Not being as hard as the diamond,
care has to be taken in not getting them
scratched" "You remarked before that
the trade was simply immense. l
suppose that the second or middle
class Of society ale the greatest pur
chasers Of these imitations?' "That's
where you're wrong. The principal buy
! ers and wearers Of snide" diamonds are
those who move in the highest society aud
I'll tell you the reason why. Let lady
who counts her wealth by the hundreds OF
thousands appear in public with pair of
six or eight CARAT "diamOEd' ear rings,
and people never suspect that they are
"snide." They imagine that because the
wearer is wealthy she would never d.
grade herself by wearing 50 diamonds, but
such is the case. Hundreds of times have
/ matched genuine diamonds for high
toned ladies, and it was actually impossi-
bic to tell them apart. You see, when a
person Of wealth wears g snide" diamonds
you can hardly make people believe that
they are anything else then genuine, while
| I,o, nj, ha,,A int mo r;s-
duced circumstances wear genuine dia-
monds and everybody they meet will turn
MP their noses and remark that they are
"snide." So that t! is is tho reason the
people OF wealth can throw Oh So much
style with very little expense.
"And Cincinnati people are great Oh
'snide' diamonds "Wcll, should re-
mark that they are. They beat any other
city in the Union. You bet that they take
tho diamonds Let me tell you some
thing. Now, this is between you and |,
and l don't want it to go into print.
There is member Of Congress from this
district whom presented with blazing
six carat diamond. Its cost price was
SAT-. That congressman fastened that
pin securely to his immaculate shirt front
and went to Washington, where i'll less
than week he created such a sensation
with his massive diamond that the Wash
ington correspondents even wrote about the
valuable solitaire worn by Gcncral--1 came
very near giving his name away, the
member of Congress from the
district Of Ohio. This congressman never
wears his 'diamoni' while in Gin
cinnati, but it is never missing
from his shirt bosom while in Wash
ington. Mrs. ex-senator - of Ken
tuciSy, appeared in Washington with a
magnificent pair Of solitaire earrings, and
set society there wild about the beautiful
jewels. Everybody was talking about
them, ant, q great many placed the value
Of the earrings at no less than $40, 900.
Many an old mans pocketbooS was
pinched in satisfyin. his darliIg's desire
to compete with Mrs. ex-senator -
IN tie way OF diamonds. The funny part
of it is that these diamonds worn by
the distinguished lady came from my
show case, and only cost her $50.
The setting was II karat gold, and the
diamonds were worth aDoat $3.50. Oh
1 tell you, The description in diamonds i,
great. All the prominent actresses Of to
day wear cheap diamonds, the entire col
lection uot being worth over $50 but
still they have a couple Of detectives tt
| traVci Wltn them lor tho purpose VI pro
tecting their jewel cases. OF cousc thi:
is done simply to make the public believe
that the jewel casket is extremely valu
able You might not believe it when
tell you that nine tenths Of the diamond:
now are imitation and that often person:
pay big prices for imitation diamonds tha
are guaranteed by the dealers to be genu
inc.
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