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Uncut specimens of sapphires from Ceylon, Siam, India, 
and Asiatic Russia. 
Richly colored chrysoberyls and alexandrite; from Ceylon 
and the Ural mountains. 
Six star sapphires, from Ceylon, the largest of which weighs 
134 karats. 
A 99 and a 66 karat yellow sapphire (oriental topaz), a 59 
karat blue sapphire, also yellow, pink, white, and other colored 
sapphires. Spinels, fine red, blue and other colors. 
The Chilton doubly-terminated emerald crystal in a matrix 
of black limestone, from U. S. Colombia. 
Emerald crystal six inches in length and about a half inch 
in diameter, remarkable for its length, from Alexander county, 
N. C. 
CASE 3. — Blue topaz of fine cutting and exquisite luster, 
from the Ural Mountains, also topazes from Brazil, Ceylon and 
Colorado. 
The 331% karat Hope aquamarine and other fine examples 
of sea-green, sea-blue, j^ellow 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 sec- 
tion of rock crystal 9 3-5 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 
slicing 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. 
