The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-06-25
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4 ! Anle:riic an Gems
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the time. preparing ,exhibits for the, St.
Louis exposition, and was unable to- look
na Msght q the p y9
! Brothers. diamond importers Of New
York, so that part Of the sentlemans
question could not be answered. Since
Of looking up the facts, and the following
table of the largest diamonds. in America,
and +t their WSeishtS will prove Of interest
matters. Persons who. are particularly
portations would do wen to cut out the
following and paste it in their hat, as it
IS absolutely correct and reliable:
The Stern yellow diamond, weight 2O7A
the Tiffany yellow diamond. weight
The Prince Edward Of York diamond,
The Hope blue diamond. weight, AK
carats.
These are. to-day the four largest dia-
monds in the United States. The only
pure white stone in the lot is The Prince
The present day fasion is running to
native stones: In the days Of Presidents
dreamed that this country had anything
worthy of consideration in the way of
precious stones.
Diamonds were the things as were In
dian sapphires, Ceylon and Burmese ru-
bies, Persian turquoise, Turkish sardonyx
and an carnelian Russian beryls, silesian
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nets and other Old World stones But to-
day the tide has turned in another direc-
ton, and if YOU want to be in style, and
right up to date. patriotic, and a patron
of home industries, as well as assisting in
the development Of American resources,
wear native stone in your ring or scarf
pin To-day the nsWy Lilac
sapphires, and the beautiful. bright, in
tensely green, Tulare chrysoprase from
California is worth as much as the tour.
mallnes from Russia and Siberia. But
these are the American stones which are
now the rage, and consequently high.
There are others. many Of which were
are handsOmer. and cheap, which. if you
should wear, them on a trip. to- England.
or among those of your friends in this
stones and artifcially colored chalcedony
(Which many think is jade carnelian).
will ssurely attract attention and cause
great body of people are ignorant of the
existence of gems other than the old dia
monds, emeralds. rubies, sapphires, ame-
and topazes. Take look, then. into
Prof. Tassin's collection of strictly Ameri-
can gems.
Perhaps the most noteworthy. is the
leopardite. It comes from North Carolina,
and was discovered only short time
ago. What does it look like mounted in
look like?. Suppose; one were to take a
hunk Of nice translucent. white parafine
wax, and, sitting down to table, should
crayons at regular distances apart one
from the other, and. after finishing the
task. should take a sharp knife and cut
Two parts? The result would be that the
surface of each would present waxy,
translucent white surface, with coal
9st sRHs Rs !e thar
fair imitation Of ash small Slab Of ': ieop.
ae eaY ha hi porp Is sP S takes Eexy T San
In IN the form Of black bars ali through the he
tractive and striking. Of native gems, a
fine specimen Of which pr. Tassin has
lately had polished and will shortly place
Next in the order Of curious American
ale. Lake Superior: It is dark olive
and lighter green. of a character SO pc
culiar that it bears a striking resem-
glance to the peculiar check and spot
and if one were to. find pebble Of
chlorolastrolite lying in the grass or in
some green, wet and mar:shy place. he
Tile. Then there is Thomsonite, which
somes from Grand Marais. Mimi. and
which presents, the most remarkable ap--
polished surface with utterly amazing ir-
Irregularities formed by lines of red, pink.
green, olive and brown and you have
covered gem, Which Il Was W. first mistaken
ready described in the Post. A ward or
hing like caiifornite. This is prehnite,
from Hoxies quarry, New Jersey.
nese Jade. only it is much more trans
lucent and presents more ;i.feathers..,
than Chinese jade. Unakite from North
Carolina presents a surface notified with
white and red that matches wonderfully
with certain kinds of enameled jewelry,
for the reason that the stone looks like
tiful little grass green hiddenites, more
expensive than emeralds. from North
Carolina. the Los Cerrllos IN: NJ
lines: the Montana sapphires the beauti-
fully formed and colored fresh water
pearls of our rivers: of the Carolina anne
toierably familiar. Variscite is a gem
found in New Mexico, which many re-
gard as handsomer than turquoise. The
J which was originally pure turquoise blue,
but which turned greenish through con-
tact with the human skin, as these stones
one shade greener than a turquoise e that tHat
has turned green. 1t does not lose color.
becoming greener or whittier, as the tur-
quoise does. Another stone which several
Westinghouse are now wearing in
rings and pins is the agate cut IRON
Isectons of the petrifed or rather aga
tized trees Of the petrified forest Of Ari-
zona. It is different sort of.agate from
the others, containing red, blue, black,
Igray and other .colors not found in ordi-
! harry variety. The opalized forest Of
, Montana was described in the Post some
time ago. and piece of what the geo.
Illogical survey, people call wood OPAL
also makes a very handsome gem.
For downright beautiful stone moth
ing could be better than the spessarite
from Amelia Court House, Va: It is a
J Of the Old World, it is a rich amber
brown: Phantom quartz from Colorado
is another curious stone transparent, yet
with the most ghostlike and flmy inclu-
sions. causing It to look as though ii
were full of spirit figures: Wernerite and
Smithsonite, the former pink and the
latter, orange colored. come from the
West, while for a ring or cuff buttons
gray Labradorite, with it's remarkable
Rainbow sheen, stands unequaled.
: jewelers. have caught on" to the pre-.
vailing fad, and are dealing extensively
in native stones. especially Tulare chry.
soprase, while the next year or. so will
witness a still greater demand for the
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