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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 

 STEP BRILLIANT OR MIXED CUT. 



Fig. 22. 



THE STEP BRILLIANT CUT. 



Here the form from culet to girdle is the same as that of the trap 

 cut, while from the g-irdle to the table the stone is brilliant cut, or 

 the opposite. 



TABLE CUT. 



Fisr. 2;?. 



TOP ANO SIDE VIEW OF TABLE CUT. 



The table cut consists simply of a greatly developed table and culet 

 meeting the girdle with beveled edges. Occasionally the 8 edge 

 facets are replaced >>y a border of 16 or more facets. 



CABOCHON CUT. 



Fig. 24. 



THE CABOCHON CUT. 



a, the single caboehon; h, the double cabochon; c, the hollow cabochon; d, flat or tallow-top 



cabochon; e, mi.xed cabochon. 



The cabochon cut is usually applied to opaque, translucent, deep 

 colored, or chatoyant stone.s. The double cabochon is usually cut with 

 a smaller curvatui-c on the base than on the crown. The singb 



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