The Magic of Jewels and Charms

Stones that fell from heaven, snake stones and bezoars, healing gems and amulets from every age — Kunz's second treasury of jewel magic, from Tiffany's own expert.

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones

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Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones

MANY interesting facts about precious stones do not properly refer either to their talismanic or curative powers, and yet serve in not a…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Indians

After expatiating on the mechanical skill displayed by the Indians of the New World, an early Spanish traveller gives the following details…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Jehangir

Shah Jehangir relates in his memoirs that Munis Khan, son of Mihtar Khan, presented him with a jug of jasper (jade), which had been made in…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Whitby

The so-called "black onyx" has almost entirely replaced jet. This is a chalcedony impregnated with a carbonic matter, such as blood or a…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Pope

The story was current that Pope Leo X (1475-1521) had a precious stone, probably some type of "moonstone," which grew brighter as the moon…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Arab

The same travellers relate the story of the discovery of a pearl under very singular conditions. An Arab came to Bassora with a very fine…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Thiers

For years a statement has been going through the press that pearls are liable to become diseased and die, and that the famous necklace of…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Sulu

A strange poetic fancy regarding the transmutation of parts of the human form into gems of the sea appears in Ariel's song in Shakespeare's…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Venice

Of one whose hand, like the base Judean's, Cast away a pearl richer than all his tribe. have been explained in many different ways by the…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Oriental

Although the Oriental carnelian is hard and difficult to cut or polish only popular prejudice accounts for this statement, as it falls far…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Lacroix

The following description of the labrets was communicated to M. Lacroix by M. Lucien Fourneau, Administrator of the Colonies:

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Chinese

The same exceptional position taken by jade among the Chinese is occupied by turquoise among the Tibetans; these are so emphatically…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Shah

In 1613, Shah Abbas of Persia sent to Jehangir six bags of "turquoise-dust," weighing in all some 23 1/2 pounds Troy. However, the material…

Facts and Fancies About Precious Stones: Colombian

That precious stones should be used to decorate the teeth seems a rather queer development of art, although the practice is not altogether…

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