Abstract
It has not always been appreciated that a gemstone contains interior beauty and its surface appearance, attractive though this may be, is only part of the total power of attraction: such crystals as the octahedra of diamond and spinel were left virtually untouched in early times. The fashioning of stones began with the grinding down of natural crystal faces.
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© 1988 M. O’Donoghue
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O’Donoghue, M. (1988). Fashioning. In: Gemstones. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1191-8_6
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