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Antique Cuts
Welcome to my office. I made this archive of antique-inspired diamond cuts for the community,
a personal reference drawn from my experience. What follows reflects my own knowledge, interpretation, and eye.
I hope it serves you.
The full experience needs JavaScript. The cuts, in plain text:
Peruzzi
An early brilliant. Fifty-eight facets worked by eye on a squared outline, with a high crown and an open culet you can look straight down into.
Baroque Old Mine Cut
A carefree diamond cut to its original form.
Baroque Old Mine
A diamond cut with its culet off center.
Baroque Old Mine Couple
Two whimsical diamonds sculpted to their true form. Not for everyone, but they belong together.
Baroque Old Mine Bracelet
A line of old mines set together, every outline different. This is why old-cut jewelry moves the way it does under light.
Perfect Square Old Mine
A 1:1 ratio old mine, cut for maximum light return while holding antique character.
Rounded Old Mine Cut
The real Victorian style of cutting Old Miners. A soft-cornered cushion with a thin, unpolished girdle and a small table.
Elongated Old Mine
A stretched cushion.
Elongated Old Mine Couple
A matched pair of long cushions. The kind you assemble over years rather than order.
Old European
Round in outline, antique pattern. Broad facets, large culet, high crown.
Antique Asscher
A square step cut with clipped corners and real depth. You look down through the steps as though into a well.
Antique Emerald
Art Deco meets vintage charm. Fewer, wider steps and a smaller table than a modern emerald, so the flashes come broad and slow.
Antique Oval
An egg-shaped diamond with a large culet and broad facets.
Antique Pear
A drop-shaped diamond with a rounded body.
Antique Marquise
The navette, pointed at both ends, and in old cutting far softer through the belly than its modern descendant.
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