Cuba Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry 143

Cuba Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry. 

 By Samina Aamir

The golden-yellow Tiffany is not only a typical Stellar Cut Brilliant with a star-like arrangement of small facets around the culet, but the crown is stepped, which consequently involves splitting the main facets. This was a standard procedure.* The pavilion, however, received three steps: between the regular two steps a third was applied, which was probably unique. This involved the splitting of the lower main facets into two triangular and one flat keystone-shaped facet. Consequently the Tiffany Yellow Diamond recieved 40 actual facets on the crown and 48 on the pavilion, plus the compulsary table and culet - in all, 90 facets compared with the 56 plus two facets of the Standard Brilliant Cut.

Croatia Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry Necklace 142

 Croatia Women Fashion 2015 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry Necklace. 

 By Samina Aamir

The fact that no major gemological organization has ever formerly examined the Tiffany Yellow (or at least, its findings were never made public) remains to be seen. Herbert Tillander addresses this in his book Diamond Cuts in Historic Jewelry - 1381 to 1910, in which he writes about the Tiffany Yellow:

Congo, Republic of (Brazzaville) Women Fashion 2014 Wedding Diamond Jewelry 141

Congo, Republic of (Brazzaville) Women Fashion 2014 Wedding Diamond Great Jewelry.  

By Samina Aamir

It was not long before the existence of the Tiffany Yellow did become widely known. In 1896 one of the triumvirate who ruled China, the Viceroy Li Hung-Chang - about whom President Grant is said to have remarked, 'There are three great men in the world, Gladstone, Bismarck and Chang, but the greatest of these is Chang' - visited New York. He announced that the one thing he wished to see was the Tiffany Yellow Diamond, a request that was duly met by the firm.