Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 262
^g- 93-—Egjrptian Moulding in Ceramic Paste. In the time of Pliny, the manufacture of falsestones was far advanced as a branch of industry- … Fig. 94.—Egyptian Ring, with a Bezel of Ceramic Paste. among the Romans. There existed several treatises 16 242 PRECIOUS STONES. upon the subject; and Pliny declared that it was adifficult task to distinguish between the false andthe true. Not only in Rome were false stones invogue, but, according…
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