POPULAR JEWELS
The sapphire has lately been the most I nopular engagement ring stone. Prince George's choice of a Kashmir sapphire therefore confirms a very general taste, 'states an English writer. In spito of this, the emerald still holds an honoured place, and this was the choice of Lady Max Abel-Smith. Tire ruby has generally been the preferred stone of the Rothschild family and became greatly popular in Victorian days' among people of wealth. Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to find a fine ruby of seven or eight carats, and stones of nine or ten carats ar« almost impossible to acquire today. ' The Kashmir sapphiro is the finest. It has the advantage of not being too dark (there is a popular fallacy that very dark sapphires are the best), and the Kashmir, unlike -the Burmah, does not'a'ppear black in strong artificial light.. '• . ~ . • The colour of tho Kashmir >s best described' as being the -bluo of the corn■flowe'r, . • ... ''
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 144, 15 December 1934, Page 18
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157POPULAR JEWELS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 144, 15 December 1934, Page 18
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