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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. — Blue topaz, smoky quartz of fine cutting and ex- 
quisite 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 Dom- 
ingo, N. M. 
Case 4. — An exceedingly fine collection of quartz and 
quartz cuttings,’ notably: — 
A large jewel casket composed of twenty-six engraved crystal 
slabs, mounted in jeweled and enameled silver; style, seventeenth 
century; original in Ambras Collection, Vienna. 
Screen, “The Finding of Moses,” engraved on a thin section 
of rock crystal gf 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, eight- 
eenth 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 6.— Zircons of various colors. A dark golden srpok^ 
