From The Vault!

Pulled from our vault! An 10+ carat Old European cut diamond!  Prior to the patenting of the first, steam-driven bruting machine in 1874, diamond cutters took an octahedron--the most common shape for gem diamonds which consists of two four-sided pyramids attached base-to-base--and manually rounded off the corners to create a cushion-shaped stone as round as they could get it. They then faceted the diamond from what was left, creating what today is known as an old mine cut.  From there the rounder stones became known as the Old European cut