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6 A Book of Precious Stones
poorer
in books on the trade than the jewelry and silver and art-metal
trades." And in the same issue the complaint is repeated. " It is
both astonishing and disappointing," says the journal in question, "
that a craft of such antiquity and interest as that of jewelry should
have virtually no distinctive literature."
The
present volume is designed, as far as it may, to supply the lack
alluded to, and to give the salesman and the merchant the kind of
information which his customers can fairly expect of him.
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