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Alabandicus, Almandine, Garnet

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ALABANDICUS.
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carats is put down at 1200 francs in tlie inventory above quoted. But its estimation lias greatly fallen since the days of Mary Queen of Scots, the pendent carbuncle to her necklace worn at her marriage with the Dauphin being worth 500 crowns—an enormous sum in that age. To the same effect De Boot, about the year 1600, states (II. 36) that small Bohemian Garnets, up to the bigness of a pea, were found abundantly in the fields around Prague, but that one the size of a hazel-nut would equal a Euby in ralue. This kind he prefers to the Indian. The latter he estimates at 2 thalers* per carat up to 20 carats; then at 3 up to 40 ; at 4 up to 60 ; and at 5 up to 100. But in De Laet's time, fifty years later, both Indian and Bohemian were become of little value.
* The thaler of this date equalled our crown-piece in intrinsic, and at least its quadruple in current value in Germany.
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