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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The greatest and one of the most perfect star sapphires known. The star sapphire is one of the most admired of gems, the perfection of the six-rayed refraction which gives it its name varies greatly in different stones and is somewhat influenced by the color of the stone and the convexity of its polished surface A cut gem of morganite (57i carats) from Madagascar. Morganite is the pink beryl of Madagascar, which is identical with the pinkgem of the same mineral found in southern ■California ever cut from material found in the United States. Besides these magnificent crystals there are a number of dark blues, pale blues, purples, greens and whites, as well as some of grayish black and brownish color from Franklin, Macon Co., North Carolina. The beryl group comprises 57 beryls, 30 aquamarines and 13 emeralds and includes golden beryl and morganite. It is notable for the splendid cut morganite of 57;;- carats from Madagascar. There are aquamarines of 214^, 271;- and 159T9^ carats respectively, from Adun- Tschilon, Siberia; another of 156^4 carats and a great bluish-green gem of 355 carats from Cey- lon. There is a beautifully cut emerald of 32^ carats from the Muso Mines, United States of Colombia; a cut gem of 4 carats from Earles Station, Blacksburg, South Carolina; an en- graved emerald of Indian workmanship, exe- cuted in the seventeenth century and weighing 67^ carats. To these must be added a series of aquamarines from Mount Antero, Colorado,
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A garnet cameo said to be from the Vatican collection, engraved with a bust of Christ in profile

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1913
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  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:183
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:americana
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