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Ch. 4: Rubies

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CELEBRATED RUBIES.
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In the inventory of the crown jewels of France the price of balas rubies is four or five times less than that of spinels.
CELEBRATED RUBIES.
The largest ruby known is one mentioned by Chardin as having been engraved with the name of Sheik Sephy.
Tavernier gives a figure of another celebrated ruby in the possession of the King of Persia: it is reproduced in Fig. 54. Its weight was 175 carats.
A third, belonging to the King of Visapur, had the figure and dimensions of Fig. 55. It was cut, as will be seen, en cabochon, and it had been bought in 1653 for nearly $13,866.
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