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from one dollar to five dollars. Fine yellow and other fancy colors bring fifteen dollars and upward.
Ordinary
cat's-eyes of about one carat cost from ten to fifteen dollars per
carat; fine, from thirty-five to fifty dollars. Large fine pieces are
rare, and cost from fifty to seventy-five dollars per carat.
Good
alexandrites bring from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty dollars
per carat. If the day and night color are both gem, the price depends
on the buyer and seller. Such stones are seldom found.
Chrysoberyl
is rarely quoted, as this stone in its various colors is usually
included in mixed lots of fancy stones under the general term " fancy
sapphires."
Ordinary chrysolite or peridot may be had for from two dollars to five dollars per carat.
Gem amethyst, American cut, costs from one dollar to three dollars per carat.
Spinels
vary considerably. Some are dear at five dollars per carat. There are
others which would be cheap at seventy-five dollars per carat.
Fine
green and pink tourmalines sell readily at fifteen to twenty dollars
per carat. Ordinary material costs about half, and some grades are sold
for from two to three dollars per carat.
Andalusite
is so rarely seen that it is difficult to quote a price. Good specimens
would probably bring from twenty to thirty-five dollars per carat.
Fine
specimens of diopside can be had occasionally for from ten to fifteen
dollars per carat. The poorer qualities are not marketable here.
Ordinary
garnets are sold by the piece or hundred, but choice specimens of
American cut American garnets are sold at from four to six dollars per
carat. Large sizes of two carats and over command as high as twenty
dollars per carat.
Good azurite and malachite cut en cabochon are worth
