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tlie lower portiou and both faces in a continuous pattern. This is as- 

 suredly M. Guesde's jewel in the ax class. 

 Length, 5^ inches. 



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Fio. 190. 



Fig. 197. An ornamental stone of a marble gray color. The right 

 part is couoidal and has near its middle a raised baud. This may have 

 fitted a socket. The left part resembles a liberty cap, bounded at its 

 base by the curve of beauty. On the two sides of the enlarged middle 

 are compound scrolls in relief, resembling the implements sold to 

 draughtsmen for making curves. 



Length, 11^ inches. 



Fig. 198. A stone collar of very dark brown patina. This belongs to 

 that class of enigmatical objects which formed such an attractive feature 

 in the Latimer collection from Porto Eico. (Smithsonian Eeport, 1876, 

 372-393.) It is of the left- shouldered variety; that is, imagining the 

 object suspended from the neck like a regalia, there is a projection on 



