Charles Lewis Tiffany
Books
- Diamonds in the Sand The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 and the Men Who Fooled America · Liszt Think
In 1872, two Kentucky prospectors convinced San Francisco’s elite that a remote Colorado mesa held untold riches.
- The Gemologist’s Seal…ery of capital could engage. And so, in the early weeks of June 1872, two men from Kentucky climbed the marble steps of 550 Broadway, where Charles Lewis Tiffany had constructed his monument to American refinement. The building announced the crossing of a threshold. Tiffany & Co. Occupied a five-stor…
- The Syndicate Forms…sal was in the files; they had paid for it. Paying was not the same as using, Roberts observed. They needed to make sure everyone knew that Charles Lewis Tiffany personally examined these stones and pronounced them genuine. Ralston made a note. The jeweler’s reputation reached beyond mining circles i…