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Emerald crystal six inches in length and about a half inch 
in diameter, remarkable for its length, from Alexander county, 
N. C. 
Case 3. — Blufe topaz, smoky quartz of fine cutting and exqui- 
site luster, albite, golden beryls, and orthoclase, from the Ural 
Mountains, also colored topazes of Asiatic Russia, Brazil, Ceylon 
and Colorado. 
The 331 karat Hope aquamarine and other fine examples of 
sea-green, sea-blue, yellow and other colors of beryl. 
Beautiful beryls from Maine, Russia and Brazil, also strings 
of turquoise beads made by the Indians of Santo Domingo, 
N. M. 
Case 4. — An exceedingly fine collection of quartz and quartz 
cuttings, notably: — 
A large jewel casket composed of twenty-six engraved cry- 
stal slabs, mounted in jeweled and enameled silver; style, seven- 
teenth century; original in Ambras Collection, Vienna. 
Screen, “The Finding of Moses,” engraved on a thin section 
of rock crystal 93-5 inches in diameter, believed to be the largest 
section of its kind in existence. 
Tazza of quartz, engraved to represent a marine festival. 
Large crystal sphere, from the summit of Mt. Antero, Colo- 
rado, one of the largest crystal balls ever polished. 
A group of crystal balls mounted on a stand of metallic 
leaves, the whole representing fruit and foliage. 
A quartz crystal, scratched so as to show the method of slic- 
ing quartz in the manufacture of spectacle lenses. 
A series of fourteen specimens of crystal intended to show 
the various steps in the cutting of a brilliant. 
Fine examples of cut crystal from Asiatic Russia ; seal having 
a Turkish inscription on one end and a Russian on the opposite; 
a frame of the seventeenth century ; chandelier pendant, eighteenth 
century, French cutting; a head of a horse and a bust of Ivan 
Tourgenieff. 
A cut crystal, from Mexico, the finest specimen of aboriginal 
work of this kind ever found in that country. 
Case 5. — Zircons of various colors. A dark golden smoke 
color, round brilliant, weight 41 karats, Kandy, Ceylon. Also 
one weighing 46^4 karats from same place. 
Tourmalines of many colors, from Brazil and Maine,' 
