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Updated: July 20, 2025
The stones of Golconda and Visapur are known by a whiteness and glittering brilliancy which others have not, the water of the Brazilian diamonds having a yellow tinge which reduces their selling value. Madame Evangelista's necklace and ear-rings, being composed entirely of Asiatic diamonds, were valued by Elie Magus at two hundred and fifty thousand francs.
He was more like a child than an old man; or, rather, childhood and dotage seemed to meet in him. "'Fine stones! The set would have fetched three hundred thousand francs before the Revolution. What water! Genuine Asiatic diamonds from Golconda or Visapur. Do you know what they are worth? No, no; no one in Paris but Gobseck can appreciate them.
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