Fancy Yellow Radiant Cut Diamond
David Federman
Modern Jeweler
People forget that before diamond cutter Henry Grossbard invented the radiant cut in 1977, most rectangular diamonds trapped, rather than tripped, the light fantastic. As a result, they looked more like pieces of glass than things of class. With their large tables, shallow crowns and, worst of all, their top and bottom rows of full-length step-cut facets running parallel to the table, they were perfect examples of what not to do when cutting diamonds—unless, of course, you wanted them with what one recalcitrant defender of step cuts then called “restrained brilliance.”
To Grossbard, such phrases were euphemisms for dead and dull. Grossbard salvaged the sullied reputation of the rectangular diamond by turning it from a step cut into a modified brilliant cut. Once he did so, the chronic light-leakage problem of this shape was solved and a spate of hybrids that mixed step and brilliant cutting followed. Indeed, the steady stream of renovated step cuts continues to this day.
Radiant cut fancy yellow diamond courtesy of Novel Collection.
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Australian Pink Diamond
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Modern Jeweler
Call it either grace or irony. But scattered throughout western Australia’s mammoth but so far mediocre diamond output, comprised mostly of industrials selling for under $10 per carat, are a few fancy pink stones that have commanded up to $400,000 per carat at auction. “We’re talking pink with a capital ‘P,’” says a New York fancy color diamond specialist.
Before 1985, few pink diamonds deserved even a small “p.” So dealers settled for faintly colored stones, believing darker hues too much to expect from nature any more than once or twice in a century.
Fancy pink diamond image courtesy of Novel Collection.
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