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Ornamental jasper tablet containing view of ruins of the 
Roman Forum in mosaic, composed of many varieties of precious 
stones of exquisite coloring. 
Pair of handsome jasper coupes from Russia. 
Cane of solid silver, inlaid with discs of turquoise, from Kur- 
distan, S. W. Asia. 
Case 2. — The diamond engraved by De Vrees of Amster- 
dam, shown in 1878 at the Paris Exposition, which required all of 
the engraver’s spare time for five years. 
A collection of over fifty diamonds in their natural state, and 
a crystal in the matrix from South Africa. 
Gem gravel containing sapphire, chrysoberyl, zircon, tourma- 
line, and others in rolled pebbles from a Ceylon river bed. 
A ninety-nine (99) and a sixty-six (66) karat yellow sapphire 
(oriental topaz), a fifty-nine (59) karat blue sapphire, also yellow, 
pink, white, and other colored sapphires. Spinel fine red and blue 
and other colors. 
Tourmalines, of many colors, from Brazil and Maine. 
The 352 karat Hope Aquamarine and other fine examples of 
sea-green, sea-blue, yellow, and other colors of beryl. 
The Chilton double terminated emerald crystal, in a matrix of 
black limestone, from U. S. Columbia. 
Richly colored Chrysoberyls, golden beryls and alexandrite, 
from Ceylon and the Ural Mountains. 
Emerald crystal six inches in length and about a half inch in 
diameter, remarkable for its length, from Alexander county, N. C. 
Beautiful beryls from Maine, Russia and Brazil, also strings of 
turquoise beads made by the Indians of Santo Domingo, N. M. 
Case 3. — Blue topaz, smoky quartz of fine cutting and exquis- 
ite luster, albite, and orthoclase, from the Ural Mountains, also 
colored topazes, Asiatic Russia, Brazil, Ceylon and Colorado. 
A very complete series, of garnets, rough and polished, rose, 
hyacinth, orange and red; also richly hued polished zircons, 
^ Case 4. — Considered the best and most complete collection 
pf quartz and quartz cuttings in the world, notably: — 
"Large crystal sphere from the summit of Mt.Antero, Colorado, 
believed to be the largest crystal ball ever polished. 
A group of crystal balls mounted on a stand of metallic leaves, 
^he whole representing fruit and. fojiage. 
