Diamonds and precious stones, a popular account of gems .. (1874)
Dieulafait, Louis, b. 1830, Sanford, Fanchon, tr · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 263
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 to Pliny, the Indians coun-terfeited jewels with success, especially opals. The processes that Pliny was so… … Fig- 95-—Egyptian Ring of Gold, with inlaid work of Enamel. and the latter in his treatise on the Essence ofMinerals^ states explicitly that there were menwho fabricated artificial jewels. Among the pre-cious stones counterfeited, he instances the hya-cinth, sapphire, emerald, ruby, and topaz. At…
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