MORGAN COLLECTION OF PRECIOUS STONES 



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Among the rubies must be noted one from Burma, weighing 47 carats. Six 

 rubies from Cowel Valley, Macon Co., North Carolina, weigh together 6§f carats. 

 A Burmese ruby carved as a head weighs 8xf carats. In addition there is an inter- 

 esting collection of gem-corundums, green, yellow, pink and other colors, from near 

 Coral Creek, Montana, and a series of fine blue stones from Yogo Gulch, Fergus Co., 

 Montana. 



The collection is also enriched with a number of interesting natural crystals of 

 unusual beauty and a large sapphire of yellow and blue, as well as with the first sapphire 



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^, 

 27 1|- and 159 T 9 ^ 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, 



A garnet cameo said to be from 

 the Vatican collection, engraved 

 with a bust of Christ in profile 



