Category Archives: Diamonds

BET ON CRAZY / CARAT WEIGHT by Peter Nolan Smith

February 6, 2015 – 5:45 pm

The day after Christmas Manny’s longtime partner, Lee, was showing a 7.04 Cushion Cut Round Diamond to a retired couple from West Palm Beach. The sixtyish woman wore a fashionable Dior outfit, though her nasal accent betrayed Brooklyn roots with an envious coo, “I don’t know, it’s so bigggg!” Her husband’s skin color of an […]

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BET ON CRAZY – THE FOUR CS By Peter Nolan Smith [Kindle Edition]

May 22, 2014 – 11:26 am

In 1990 a friend in the New York’s Diamond District asked me to help him at his exchange. I knew nothing about diamonds other than Superman could squeeze coal to create them. Coal was a diamond after intense pressure changed its density. At first that was all I knew, but I slowly learned about the […]

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BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith / The 4Cs – Color

May 21, 2014 – 10:58 am

The last week of January I was hurrying down the sidewalk on West 47th Street. I had been on the job since my friend Richie Boy had busted both his knees skiing at Jackson Hole. My watch read 9:35. I was late for the third time this week and it was only Wednesday. Lenny the […]

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GLATT BACCHUS by Peter Nolan Smith

February 5, 2014 – 3:54 pm

These days most people in America survive from paycheck to paycheck and New York’s Diamond District has been feeling the pinch, so that my bosses Richie Boy and his father Manny couldn’t offer me a place behind the counter upon my return from the Orient. “It’s brutal out there.” Manny always kvetched about business, but […]

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OLD BROWNIE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 22, 2014 – 8:12 pm

Yesterday was a quiet day on 47th Street. A winter snow was having its way with New York City. Snow piled up on the street. The porters had a hard time clearing the sidewalk and I was having difficulty looking busy. There was nothing to do. No one came into the store. No dealers, no […]

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