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Robertawins with her 12:16 a.m. Wednesday guess "Ah, the joy of research. A crowd at J. Herbert Hall Jewelers, located on Colorado.
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An immense diamond is (being) placed in the store window."
In the 1910 photo above (uncropped this time), a Pasadena police officerstands guard outside the J. Herbert Hall Company as a small crowd gathers.
Here's an excerpt from The Pasadena Star, Sept.
24, 1910:Hundreds of people gazed with awe at a big pebble in the window of the J. Herbert Hall company all day today, the awe being due to the fact that the insignificant stone is a diamond 61¾ carats in weight, worth an unknown number of thousands of dollars.
All day a policeman in uniform stood beside the window to see that no one smashed the glass and made off with the costly pebble.
The big, smooth, uncut diamond rested on a mirrored placque surrounded by handsome unmounted but finished diamonds which in themselves would have made a considerable display...
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