The standard gold coin of the United States and Great Britain is 22 carats fine; or, in other words, it contains one-twelfth part of alloy.
If perfectly pure, it is denominated gold 24 carats fine; if alloyed with one part of any other metal or mixture of metals, it is said to be 23 carats fine.
This rule, however, is not extended to diamonds of more than 20 carats in weight; nor is this or any other rule of estimate strictly adhered to in every case; nevertheless, it probably comes pretty near to general usage.
In the same country, a perfect ruby of 3-1/2 carats is worth more than a diamond of equal weight.
It is said to have weighed 756 English carats (Ball, ii.
It was sent for examination to a qualified person in Grahamstown, who reported that it was a diamond of twenty-one caratsweight and that its value was L500.
These stones generally run from four to twenty-four carats each, though some are found as high as thirty and even forty carats; but the whole trade does not exceed 600 carats yearly.
They can be cut into gems weighing three to four carats each, but do not approach those from the Levant either in size or color.
Fine gems weighing from two to three carats each and upward when cut are not uncommon.
The brassy gold chains in question are far inferior in colour to chains made of gold of 18 or 22 carats fine, and they would hardly be tolerated by many persons when seen side by side with those of the latter description.
Four grains are equal to one carat, and six caratsmake one pennyweight.
Two years ago there were one million carats of diamonds taken out of the Kimberley Mine, while those of Dutoits Pan and Bultfontein yielded no less than seven hundred thousand carats.
The diamond known as "the Star of Africa," weighing some eighty-three carats in its raw state, was obtained from a Hottentot.
The stone weighed twenty-one carats and was valued at £500.
Well, they're over twenty carats each, and therefore, of course, many times the value of first water diamonds.
After you get above five carats with real Oriental rubies, diamonds are not in it.
Two hundred and fifty caratsgets a Martian planted in style.
When the king seats himself upon the throne there is a transparent jewel, with a diamond appendant of eighty or ninety carats weight, encompassed with rubies and emeralds, so hung that it is always in his eye.
The twelve pillars also, that uphold the canopy, are set with rows of fair pearl, round, and of an excellent water, that weigh from six to ten carats apiece.
I had the money and proceeded to examine the stone which seemed to be a good diamond, and would probably weigh sixcarats as the owner declared.
It was weighed, and found to be ten carats under weight.
The large Borneo stone, over 360 carats in weight, known as the Matan, is in all probability not a diamond.
When a stone of eight or ten carats is found, the negro receives two new shirts, a complete new suit, with a hat and a handsome knife.
In some of these mines gold above twenty-three carats has been found, but the greater part is only of seventeen, and of a green color, being combined with a large portion of silver.
One about elevencarats was a very fine stone, perfectly crystallized, in the form of an octahedron.
I was then shown about eight hundred carats found in the regular course of washing; they were in general very small, not one exceeding five carats.
The gold weighs one maes two diezmos of eighteen or nineteen carats fine.
It weighs four diezmos of eighteen or nineteencarats fine.
It weighs one large diezmo of eighteen or nineteen carats fine.
It weighs two large diezmos of eighteen carats fine.
The gold weighs two maes four diezmos of twenty-two carats fine.
It weighs one maes and one diezmo of gold of twenty carats fine.
The gold weighs six and one-half diezmos of sixteen carats fine.
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