Tolkowsky family. Collection
Abraham Tolkowsky, born on 5 June 1838 in Russia, migrated from Bialystok, Poland, to Belgium in the 1880s and became a diamond merchant in Antwerp. He married Lifsche Moed and several of their nine children also became active in the diamond industry. The family business prospered from the 1890s with the founding of diamond polishing business A.M.I. Tolkowsky. Son Moise (Maurice) invented several techniques ...




