Champagne's deeper register- burnt amber, russet, and the brown-red of a bottle held against a lamp. Natural body color formed in the crystal, untreated and unaltered. Saturation this deep changes what the cut has to do: facets that would read as brilliance in a colorless stone read as movement here.

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.