Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 190
er thename of jaspers diffisr so greatly from each otherthat their price varies from 20c. to $12 the pound. ENGRAVING UPON AGATE, &C. It is the agate, and the varieties of which it is thetype, that have in all ages furnished to the engraverthe stones best suited to his art. ENGRAVING UPON… … Fig. 74.—^Agate, Alexander the Great (reduced to three-quarters), its colour is quite different from that of the ground-work of the stone. It is set in a superb frame ofenamelled gold. I70 PRECIOUS STONES. The fig. following (Fig. 75) is a chalcedony dis-playing a bacchic bull with an ivy wreath…
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