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Settlement by Handshake. So entrenched are relationships in the trade that most transactions are based on simple confidence. Deals involving hundreds of stones are sealed without a count by a handshake and the binding Yiddish phrase: Mazel und brocket (Good luck and blessings) that is used by Jewish and non-Jewish dealers alike the world over...
...collection contains over 200 heads of sheep, goats, antelopes, and deer. A 'group of 52 deer antlers, varying in size from the enormous caribou moose down to the little wood brocket with antlers one and one-half inches long, includes two heads of Shomburg's deer, of which there are not more than six examples in existence, and two heads of the rare Pere David's deer, of which the last known living examples are on the Duke of Bedford's estate in England...
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