Old Hand Cut Diamonds

Old mine cut diamonds.

Old hand cut diamonds.

Old mine cut diamonds date back to the 1830 s and were common up until the turn of the century. This means if it is cut poorly it will be less luminous. Old mine diamonds are mostly off round in shape with a high crown small table and open culet. Old european cut diamonds are also known as old euro round old mine and european cuts.

Much like other vintage diamond cuts like the old european cut and the rose cut old mine cut diamonds tend to hand cut with the aid of early machinery. A diamond cut is a style or design guide used when shaping a diamond for polishing such as the brilliant cut cut does not refer to shape pear oval but the symmetry proportioning and polish of a diamond. They are the earliest form of the modern brilliant cut. Old cut diamonds have 58 facets.

The more light a diamond returns the greater its brilliance. The old european cut diamond or old euro cut was the primary diamond shape used in the art deco era old mine cut diamonds or miner cut were used in victorian and edwardian eras. Again being all hand cut without the use of precise machines each one is as individual as the people who cut them. As part of our service we source old cut diamonds for clients.

Antique diamonds have old cuts that usually don t maximize the stone s brilliance as well as contemporary cuts do. Old european cut diamonds old mine cut. The proportions of a diamond s cut determine how well the stone will return light to the eye of the observer. Most antique jewelry from that era used old european cut diamonds old mine cut diamonds rose cut diamonds and single cut diamonds.

Owing to the limited availability of old cuts we use our network of diamond merchants to source suitable stones. The cut of a diamond greatly affects a diamond s brilliance. Old european cut diamonds were the diamond cut that was used in almost all rings made at the beginning of the 1900s. There is some overlap between the periods when both antique diamond cuts coexisted.

Although many old cut diamonds demand lower prices than modern cuts scarcity often sets their price above modern cuts. Most round brilliant cuts only have 57 due to the fact that most have a pointed culet see below. Often cutting diamonds by hand they gave diamonds shapes and dimensions that capture the character and essence of their eras diamonds cut using the old techniques may exhibit less fire and brilliance though they sometimes are preferred for their warmer more romantic glow. Old mine cut diamonds were a form of brilliant cut with a variety of facets structures and with the outside perimeter being out of round often more square or rectangular in shape.

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