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INSCRIBED BY GIA FOUNDER SHIPLEY SHIPLEY, ROBERT. Important Diamonds of the World. Mounted photographic plates of diamonds with descriptive text.
INSCRIBED BY GIA FOUNDER SHIPLEY SHIPLEY, ROBERT. Important Diamonds of the World. Mounted photographic plates of diamonds with descriptive text. 4to, contents bound into silver cloth ring binder with title stamped in gold on cover; McCorkell bookplate. Sinkankas 6018. Np: Self-published, [1934-41]
- Notes: pre-publication proof inscribed by shipley to gordon young: "With memories of [the] story of the Regent theft which we never wrote. Bob Shipley." A series of articles bound together with illustrations and title page which formed the basis of his 1939 publication Famous Diamonds of the World. Shipley was an American jeweler, gemologist, educator, and writer, who is best known as the founder of the Gemological Institute of America.
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