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Show ' "' Sharp Diamond Smuggler. "We are informed that a jewelry firm not far from Itadison square, on Broadway, Broad-way, succeeded in getting a number of diamonds past the customs officials in a peculiar way. The diamonds numbered between eighty and ninety, and were worth in the vicinity of $ 12,000, as they were all large stones. On the invoice they were billed as imitation im-itation French jewels of the new kind. These diamonds are made of brilliant pieces of glass highly polished and deftly covered with a thin coating of genuine diamond shavings. These stones are so expertly made that it is almost impossible impossi-ble to detect the imitation even by the use of a Btrong microscope. The telltale tell-tale featnro of the imitation stone is a roughness aronnd the circtilay dgo at the widest part of the stone, where tho two layers of the diamond coating join. This is really the only way that the imitation can be detected. Emeralds, pearls and rubies are also made in this way. It is necessary to use a micro-neope micro-neope to detect this roughness about the ' edge. ' When the consignment of supposed imitation diamonds arrived Ihe assistant assist-ant appraiser assigned to gauge their value examined each stone carefully with ; a powerful microscope, and found that ! all of them had tho tell tale roughness ' cn the edges, lie accordingly allowed them to be delivered to the consignees cn payment of tho duty based upon a valuation of $000. This saved the firm some 1,200 in duty. As a matter of fact the jewelers knew the means taken by the custom house authorities to discover if the stones were imitation or not, and had filed tho edges of ihe diamonds before shipment from the other side, so that they resembled the spurious articles. Jtwaters' Catalogue. Cata-logue. - |