Natural body color running from pale straw through warm honey to soft amber, formed under conditions no two stones shared. Colorless grading treats warmth as a defect to be priced down. We have never read it that way- champagne sits against skin and against gold in a way no white diamond does.

Shaped before electric light, to catch candleflame rather than scatter it. Small table. Tall crown. Deep pavilion. An open culet that lets light pool instead of splinter. Every Old Mine Cut we sell is cut in our own Surat facility to these proportions. Not antique. Not estate. Newly cut. Meticulous make. The same soul.