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HALL 32. 
HIGINBOTHAM HALL. 
SECTION OF OEMS AND JEWELS. 
The collection of gems and precious stones that during the 
Exposition attracted so much attention at the Tiffany pavilion in 
the Manufactures Building, and in the gallery of the Mines and 
Mining Building, has been added to and occupies the central cases 
in this hall. It is believed to be the most complete collection in 
existence, for it contains nearly every known gem or precious 
stone, in the finest cut examples, in fine crystals, cleavages or 
rolled grains, always of gem value. Many of the objects in the 
collection are of historical interest and of world-wide reputation. 
The collection as a whole illustrates the Oriental, Cingalese, 
Aztec, English, German, French, and other methods of cutting, 
polishing, and engraving gems and precious stones. 
Case 1, — (top case). — Contains several of the more handsome 
objects selected from the classified series to show the methods 
adopted by skillful jewelers in the fabrication of gems and orna- 
mental stones into articles for use or ornament. 
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 g 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, 
Rhodonite jewel casket, rhodonite ink stand, and rhodeuiite 
coupes of rare marking, all from the Ural Mountains. Rho(|qart^ 
is a favorite stone with the imperial family of Russia, 
Three fruit pieces made at Ekaterinburg, Asiatic Russia,^ 
composed of twelves varieties of rare gem stones found in the 
Ural Mountains, and carved to represent plums, currants, berries, 
and other fruits; a most realistic group. „ 
