The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-24
I'm THE DIAMOND ROOMS.
Quiet Places Where Customers May
Make Selections Leisurely
and in Seclusion.

Most people would find in the Jew
elers' showcases things as beautiful
and as costly as they wanted to buy;
in some establishments there would
be found here things ranging in
prices up to thousands of dollars for
single articles: but there are people
who want things that more costly
still, or who, it may be, upon one
occasion or another do not want to
make selections in a public place.
These customers the experienced
salesman would be able to recognize
every time with practically unerring
certainty, and at the proper stage in
the showing of the goods he would
suggest that the firm had other arti-
cles that he would like to show them
where they could look at them more
at their leisure, says the New York
Sun.
The rooms in which the articles
would be shown in such circum-
stances, and which would be in the
establishment itself, might be called
diamond rooms, or diamond parlors,
though probably small and simply fur
nished. A room for this use might
be little apartment ten or IL feet
square, carpeted and provided with a
table upon which the goods could be
placed, and comfortable chairs. There
would be also, very probably, upon the
table pair of scales in a glass case,
upon which jewels can be weighed;
and there would be also upon the
table writing materials, so that checks
might be conveniently written.
To one sitting comfortably in such
q room the salesman would bring from
safes near at hand such treasures of
the house as the customer might de-
sire to see; bringing into the little
room, very likely, the drawer in which
the jewel to be shown was kept in the
safe, and setting the drawer down
upon the table and taking from it
the jewel for inspection. If the in
tending purchaser was looking for
pearl necklace, for instance, there
might be brought to him here one,
simple string long enough to go
around the neck, worth $4,000; sim
pie, but very beautiful. Then there
might be shown to him necklace of
pearls Of the same size, and counting,
1t might be, the same number on the
string, worth $4,000, the greater
price due to their superior perfection
of skin and color Seen separately,
the difference between the necklaces
would not be noted; seen together, it
was manifest. The $4,000 necklace
was still very beautiful, but a strong
er term than that would be needed to
describe the simple beauty of the
other. Incidentally one might learn
that of fine pearls it is difficult to get
enough to supply the demand.
Here might be seen a sapphire and
pearl pendant, to wear on a necklace,
S11 800. Another pendant, composed
of n pearl, a diamond and an emerald,
$2s,00O. Still another pendant, an en-
erald and a pearl, and both small,
$4,000. But size doesn't count in any
of these things so much as perfec-
ton and beauty do. In tins emerald
and pearl pendant the pearl is pear
shaped and perfect in quality and
shade; a pearl rare and difficult to
match And here is another pendant,
a little ruby, pigeon blood, with a
pear-shaped pearl suspended from it,
$4,000; and so on. Many things at
various prices, not all so costly as
these, by any means, and some more
so. 1t would not be counted as re-
markable to sell purchaser sitting
here in comfort and surveying these
beautiful things, quite at leisure
Jewel or jewels to the value of $780,
900, these being bought most likely to
be given away.