Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-07-13
COSTLY UMBRELLAS.
A Greet Variety OF Them, RanafnE
In Price Up to Hundreds of
Dollars Each.

You can buy an umbrella for Sc
cents or you may pay $50 or great
deal more for one if you wish TO. In
one retail stock in the city the umbrel-
las range in price from SIS up to hun
dreds of dollars apiece. Here for 50
may be bought silk umbrella with
natural wood handle. Umbrellas OF
this sort for men and women range in
price up to $3.50. Above that price
the value of the umbrella depends upon
the mountings, which are made OF
many materials and in very great va
riety. Some of them are comparative
ly inexpensive and some very costly,
says the New York Sun.
Of the more costly umbrellas some
are made for mems use, the greater
number of them for women's use.
There are, of course, handles in many
forms of gold and silver, and these at
all sorts of prices-S15, $40, $25 and $50,
and on up. For instance, one mount
ing with gold top mi"ht cost $24;
mountings of gold or silver enamel
might cost $40. One gold mounting
with platinum ornamentation cost SIC.
In fact, umbrellas with mountings of
gold or silver may be bought in one
form and another at practically any
price. A mans umbrella with handle
of stained ivory, carved, is valued at
$50. Another umbrella with a Nalacca
handle and mounting of silver and
stained ivory costs $34.
A woman's umbrella, the handle
mounted with gold and enamel and
set with large garnet, costs $3.50. The
price of one mounted with a head OF
gold set with large amethyst is $340.
The amethyst in this handle is set in a
rim of gold which is hinged on one side
and held down by spring catch on
the other, The end of the gold handle
is followed out, forming box of
which the amethyst serves as the lid
in which might be carried bon-bons, or
whatever else might be desired
Umbrella mountings are now made
in very considerable variety of gun
metal and many of these heads are set
with diamonds. A gun-metal umbrella
handle may be in the form of a little
ball, or globe, with belt formed of a
single line of small diamonds running
around it, this belt encircling the globe
in some cases in horizontal line and
in others diagonally. Some of these
gun-metal heads are sprinkled oven
with diamonds, more or less closely
set, these diamonds being sometimes OF
uniform size, and sometimes of differ.
ent sizes. Sometimes the diamonds are
set in the metal in some sort of design;
as little horseshoe made of tiny dia.
monds. this being the handles only
ornament. Gun-metal mountings are
made in various other shapes as well
as in the spherical form. 1t might
seem that diamond-studded umbrel
la handle would be very elaborate-ap
pearing affair, but as matter of fac
many of them are at once simple and
beautiful. Umbrellas with gun-metaI
mountings. most of them. if not all
with some sort of diamond ornamental
ton, sell from S14.5O to $24O each.
There are umbrellas with handles a
rock crystal. cut in various forms;
there are mountings of jade; there aIe
mountings in whole or in part of vari
Gus fine minerals; there are mounting'
of rhinoceros horn; and the combine
tions of materials used are many
Here, for example. is an umbrella
mounting that presents handle Of
shark skin and gold, with a sapphire il
the end of it, this umbrella costing
$275; here is an umbrella with a handle
Of jade, with diamond and amethysr
ornamentation, price $l65; and here
with Malacca stick, mounted witt
stained ivory and jade with band o
Russian enamel. for S62.
Whatever their means may be, no
very many people pay more than S3C
for an umbrella for ordinary use; 10y
far the greater number of those sole
at higher prices are bought to Civ
away. The sale of these costly UNI
brellas is of course comparatively lin
tied, but they are in demand, and the,
may be found in stock in mountings o.
hundreds Of varieties. with new thing
all the time being added.