Blue-White Diamond: An old marketing term meant to infer a diamond was of high quality - that is, so colourless it appears blue.
Blue-White Diamond
A jeweler tells you, "This is a blue-white diamond."
This is a very old term that is now carefully controlled by the FTC because of misuse and scams in the past.
The tide of public preference may be shifting back to the blue-white diamond, but you want to be sure, when buying a diamond, that you examine it under a variety of conditions, such as sunlight and fluorescent light, ...
This irregular-shaped blue-white diamond was roughly 995 carats. It was found in l893 by a worker at the De Beers mine at Jagersfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. The Excelsior diamond was cut in 1904 by I.J.
Stifft, who soon confirmed that they were genuine blue-white diamonds of a "fine grade." Soon after, Huddleston sold his land for $36,000, and became nationally famous as "Diamond John" the "Diamond King." ...
It belongs to the family of blue-white diamonds. William Punch Jones and Grover. C. Jones during pitching horseshoes found this diamond in the year 1928. For a span of fourteen years this rare gem was kept inside a cigar box.
An American Gem Society ruling prohibits the use of this term by its members. Legally a Blue-White diamond must have a blue body color. The many flagrant misuses of this term have rendered it almost meaningless.
 See also: Stone, Blue-white, Carat, Diamond, Cut
  
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