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Jewellery (1908)

Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford), 1876-1960 · London : Methuen and co · leaf 210

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s was a most flourishing one,and it was customary there to divide the makers ordealers in these articles into three categories—pater-nosterers of bone and horn, of coral and mother-of-pearl,and of amber and jet. In England the rosary makersdo not seem to have been so specialised. The larger beads… … ROSARIES AND POMANDERS The gaudees or gauds in the above quotation, theornaments or trinkets attached to the rosary, werecommonly in the form of a crucifix, while the smallGerman charms mentioned above (p. 120) were mostlyemployed for the same purpose. Of the spherical-shaped gauds or nuts pendent…

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