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2. Jade
The high prices that jades command, even in China, have made a great demand for a kind of chalcedony, which the sharp merchants of Canton sell to str
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... is one of the most peculiar productions of the art of the Chinese potter, and has not been successfully imitated elsewhere. ...
In various periods of history the ruby has. been considered the stone of royalty. Among Oriental peoples it was held to guard its wearer from sorcery
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... amber, has pronounced electric manifestations, vibrations strong enough to be felt by very sensitive persons. ...
Stones from comparatively hard jade to the aptly named soapstone have always presented a challenge to the craftsman.
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... when the subject of English furniture first began to be studied and to be written about, it was divided conveniently into four ...
5. Gems - Jade
Jade has of recent years been imitated in glass, but the latter is recognizable by its vitreous lustre and inferior hardness, and sooner or later by
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... a prominent place in wherry and can aspire to rank with the precious stones. The colour varies from ...
6. Gems
... Rare Legally ...
Those who visit the magnificent collection of Jade in the Bishop Hall at the Museum will agree that the best way to consider this wonderful array of
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... time to the present day we find these systematically divided. And fir ...
... jeweled horse collars and harness rings as well as jewelry for humans. In far off gull's (China) artists were carving jade into ornaments. India was polishing ...
... smoky topaz, purpurine, Purpurine lazuli, Hornstone, nonpareil, saussurite and Siberian jade made these little figures remarkably colorful. The eyes are of diamonds, turquoises ...
To declare that there are strange, inexplicable powers in gem stones strikes the average person of today as absurd. To him a stone is an inanimate th
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... definite idea of the high honor in which gems were held by the ancients. It tells of the use of jewels, especially jade, lapis lazuli, and ...
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