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It is a funny feeling to slip this stone into your pocket jingle it with your keys. For its value cannot be estimated, and it, and it alone, caused three wars.

They showed Catherine's atqniaclier of glittering diamonds linked in two places, and then came the work of Puuzior of Genera, bouquets and sprays of coloured

In a recent isano the New York Times published an account from its Moscow eur respondent of the Imperial Crown jewels of Russia, which the Communist Government parmitted him, to examine. The correspon dent was evidently dazzled by the wealthSema arranged to imitate flowers

expert literally danced with excitement. of the display, as the following excerpts.

"It is the climax of the jeweller's art,” from his description will show:

he cried. There nover was anything like it before and never will be again."

I saw them in a high, bare, whitewashed room in what was formerly the now Moscow Law courts. A big flat table with white paper in squares. Three workmen in grey mocks-pocketless-one al expert in jewellery, and two officials, Begusheff, who heads the jewel commission, and Sabocol, the secretary. In the middle room is a big box of tested steel with the stamp of the crown of Imperial Russia on the cover, but secured by the red smis of the new Russia of the Soviets, of peasants and workmen. They lift from the chest a square wooden box, and set it on the table.

"Here," says Begasheff, opening it with bands that tremble over a little despite air of puconcern, is the crowd of the Emperor."

He puts a squim foot of incandescent fire on the table Diamonds, diamonds, and diamonds, with two rows of pearls over the middle, milk-white iridescent. Above are stone, uncut but burneunted by a diamond

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"Thirty-two thousand eight hundred carats of lianionds," says the expert,

THE GRAND MODEL.

Then they showed us Catherine's golden sceptre. yard long rod fine gold encrusted with diamonds with a knob of glittering brightness-the historic Orloff diamonds, the third greatest in the world set 6in. from the top. Orloff on his return from Persia gave it to Catherine as a New Year's gift when the rest of the horrified courtiers gave bouquets of flowers. It won back for him the waning favour of his Imperial mistress, who repaid the gift in honours and palaces that inade the Orloff family one of the mightiest in Russia.

It is more than probable that this get of 134 carats. is the fanious "Grand Mogul," of Indian legend, which dis appeared one day in far back ages in one of the sudden welters of murder that used ta convulse the Court of Delhi. The stone is pure blue white, big as a pigeon's egg, and was bought by Orio for $2,000,000 in Persia, whither he travelled "under ground" from India.

No. 3 was an orillasie gold ball, bin. in diameter, surmounted by a sapphire of 190 carats sapporting a diamond cross, -173 erata in all. A crown of 1,933 diamonds unde for Catherine the Great-who wore it on many occasione on days of real importance was shown.

There are 487 carats altogether in this crowp. set, with diamonds so as to quiver like a mas of giant jelly.

The fifth was a necklace worn by the Emperor of the orders in diamonds of ancient Busain. Five years were spent in llecting and matching old Indian stones, numbered by thousands, veritable gems of Golconda, at the command of Tsar Alexan- der I. With it there was worn a star flaring with fifty carats weight of diamonds around a blue enamel core, on which in gold Russian letters were the words, "Faith and Honesty."

A seventh piece was a truly imperia, diadem of the style one sees as a laurel wreath gracing the brows of Royal Casarel but bare the laurel leaves' weight was as of leaves on the trees of jewels Aladdin saw in the wonder garden beneath the earth In the centre there was a pear. shaped diamond in. long ofseventy carats, with a round stone of twenty carats above it. Of all the jewels we saw this was the most regal.

The next was the diadem of the Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, which was worn by the late Empress at her coronation. One huge oblong rose diamond in the contre weigte 125 carats, and is without peer outside the fabled treasures of an Indian rajab. Ita full fire is lost because it is set in a gold locket, which the tradition of the Imperial dynasty forlade to alter. Above it there is a row of diamonds as big. as a finger-nail, and below a second row of pear-shaped: pendants, of which one missing.

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TRUE WEALTH OF RUSSIA. "The ninth piece aroused the Communist officials to entusiasm, for it was the true emblem of agricultural Russia, a diadem forried of enri of wheat in diamonds with one big stone of thirty-seren carats in the centre. Scattered among the whent-ears are fat chunks of diamonds. gleaming in the harvest sun.

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"This is the true wealth of Russia says Begasheff, "not platinum, or a Jands but wrung from the sweat of worke Bossia's own natural grain-ber blest jewel":

The next what a shock of wooder- emeralds an inch long, eleven of them, in & pendant diamond necklace, hanging loose in their gold and platinum setting. The smallest weighs twenty carats, the largest forty-five. Uncut, just polished and pierced with gold pine, they gleam with green fire as a smiling workman spreads them across his chest.

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A neckornament of Empress Eizabeth shone with rubies “big as the signal lamps of a liner, as one workman put it, but outshone by an emerald brooch with two huge oral stones like giant green eyes. One hundred and seventy-four carats they measured, and another beneath them as n pendant 226. They were offact by a moss of diamonds and their green depths were tanked with a cloud we syntholic, emerskil can imitate. The biggest was estimated to be worth 20,000,000 roubles.

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The next piece was late romantic history, |íí It was a belt and rendant of diamonds. given by Catherine to her lover, Putenkin. In those days Royalty and Royal favourites. were literally correl with jewels. There was a boat made for Tear Faul I. when only 12 years old which contained 13.000 damonds, worth 90,000,000 roubles. Inter Paul elaborated it into a "suit of 90,000 diamonds in Cossack style, with a total wright of over 5,000 carats and a valno of upward of $100,000,000.

What we as was but the cream of the thousand odd pieces of Imperial jewels which are being catalogued. Of many absolutely nothing is known. Of the majority the history must be dug from mouldering archives.

How rast and priceless was the treasure of the Tears may be judged from the fact that the historie Shah diamond of Akbar's glory lay for 100 years after its acquisition unknowa and unconsidered in the cellar of tho Imperial Palace of the Kremlin at Moscow.

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