VALUABLE SAPPHIRE
PURLOINED BY PICKPOCKETS. DISCOVERED IN FRANCE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) deceived February 23, 5.5 p.m. PARIS, February 22. The adventures of a deep blue sapphire, weighing 2DJ carats, arc occupying the attention of the French police, it is a heirloom in the Polish family of Count Xavier Branicki. The count carried it on his person when Warsaw was occupied in July, 1918, until a pickpocket slide the gem, which seemed wholly Inst. The French police, however, traced it, to a dealer named Feuvschwanger, who bought it for 185,000 francs from a Lithuanian dealer, recognising it as a slone which had been exhibited at the International Exhibition. Feurschwanger decided ,to cut it into nine stones, hoping thereby to evade recognition. The weight was reduced to 135 carats. The police have nowarrested Feurschwanger and six others, including the Lithuanian dealer and two stone-cutters.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14599, 24 February 1921, Page 5
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