History of the gems found in North Carolina
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- Title
- History of the gems found in North Carolina
- Author
- Taber Prang Art Company
- Publication year listed
- 1907
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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History of the gems found in North Carolina
Author: Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932
Year: 1907
"The photographs are of very good quality but it is the richly colored lithographs that make this work as highly prized for them as for the text. They depict rough and cut corundums, beryls, especially a large and fine emerald crystal, hiddenite, diamond, quartz gems, kyanite and garnet. Plate 3, facing p. 8, depicts what was then the largest emerald crystal mined in North Carolina; it is the same that was stolen in 1950 from the American Museum of Natural History in New York and never recovered... The plates are by Taber Prang Art Company; for further information on this company, see Gems and precious stones of North America, 1890."--Gemology by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 3684. Partial contents: Plate 1 (lithograph): A. Section of sapphire crystal, banded blue and yellow, Jenks Mine, Macon County, North Carolina; B. Asteriated sapphire, Jackson Cuonty, North Carolina; C. Ruby, Jenks Mine, Macon County, North Carolina; D. First sapphire found in matrix, Corundum Hill, Macon County, North Carolina, restored to matrix after being cut; E. Sapphire (brown) chatoyant, McDowell County, North Carolina; F. Ruby, Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina; G. Ruby, Cowee Valley, Macon County,