The lots are laid out. Study what you choose — the haze clears only where you pay to look.
🔦 THE LAMP — 1 coin
reads the grain and trues your
estimate (×1.12). A cut with the grain grades a tier higher.
🔍 THE LOUPE — 2 coins
finds hidden flaws. An unseen flaw
CRAZES the cut to less than half its worth — the loupe is craze insurance.
💧 THE WET READ — 1 coin
a lick and a stare: the colour
zone, cheap. Enough to scope a rescue recut when a stone does craze.
⚖ THE OATH & THE CURSE
an oathed-clean stone raises
EVERY estimate — the boast is priced. Win a stone you never studied and the bench
collects the difference: the winner's curse, in house arithmetic.