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Postcards
VBI-0217
PRECIOUS STONES: EMERALD
₹400
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Details
- Publisher / Photographer
- F. R. Mold (drawings)
- Year
- 1900's
- Publisher / Printer
- Not specified
- Location
- Muzo, Colombia; Takovaya, Urals
- Subjects
- Emeralds · Mineralogy · Gemstones · British Museum (Natural History)
- Size
- 5.5 x 3.5 in
Description
Postcard illustrating four emerald specimens, lettered A–D, including a six-sided crystal, crystals on calcite, a step-cut stone and a crystal in mica-schist. The caption identifies specimens from Muzo, Colombia, and Takovaya in the Urals, and states that the drawings are natural size. Credited to F. R. Mold, with the British Museum (Natural History) named below and a printing credit to Waterlow & Sons Limited; numbered D20.
Condition
Good