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Larger than the largest diamond found in South Africa's Kimberley Mines (442 carats) or in her De Beers Mines (503 carats) was a monstrous Brazilian diamond of 574 carats found last week by an impecunious prospector in Bello Horizonte, 300 miles from Rio de Janeiro, on the lands of rich Dona Dolores Matta Machado Vidigal...
TIME correctly stated that Isidore W. Schlesinger will operate diamond cutting plants at Kimberley and assume a contract with the South African Government. TIME was incorrect in stating that Cineman Schlesinger will mine diamonds in Namaqualand. He will get his diamonds from the De Beers syndicate, will engage in no price-cutting...
Last week Depression forced De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., to close its diamond mines. Chief unit of the South African diamond syndicate, De Beers closed with the understanding that other mines would follow. But a favorite child of South Africa's government is its diamond-cutting factory at Kimberley. On the heels of the first announcement came news that the government had contracted with I. W. Schlesinger to operate this factory and other smaller ones. Price charged by I. W. Schlesinger was permission to work diamonds in his extensive holdings in Namaqualand. Before the syndicate was the prospect...
...agent at White Horse, to the flight commander at Aden, to the pilot boat on the Hooghly, to the superintendent at Kimberley, to the colonel's lady at Simla, to thousands of others a treat was on its way last week. The big weekly edition of the august London Times was carrying, in addition to its eight pages of pictures, eight pages in rotogravure and eight more pages in color. It was the first time that any English newspaper had incorporated either gravure or color as a regular feature...
...brothers, Jack and Woolf, left London's Petticoat Lane (now officially known as Middlesex Street) some 50 years ago, went diamond hunting in South Africa. Their maternal uncles, Harry and Barney Barnato had preceded them, had somehow garnered a few thousand pounds, bought some claims at Kimberley. Shortly thereafter the Barnatos and the Joels found themselves in the eclectic company of world's richest men. In 1884 Brother Jack was involved in the Illicit Buying Case, jumped bail in South Africa, returned to England where he has lived ever since. In 1898 Brother Woolf was shot and killed...