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LAST LOOK.
To be pedantic about it, they're rose-cut diamonds-a name derived from the flat shape that gives them their distinctive muddled-gray luster. But when we talk about antique brooches (and present-day paste renderings
of said brooches), we prefer to call them dirty diamonds. So irresistibly illicit-sounding, so "if only these stones could talk!" When we mention dirty diamonds, fabulously louche visions dance in our heads: Miss Havisham in a gown clouded
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