Show aca r own ewe to T ra C to rs how russia would turn Roma 4 diabo n ds into american tarm 4 machinery V i r 17 e I 1 A 40 V A 41 J T 4 A s by JOHN DICKINSON SHER bherman MAN ERES a job for the sob bisters no ordinary manipulator of the typewriter la Is HERES equal to the magnificent pos poa of the theme they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning books nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more so run the famous and familiar words word 8 from isaiah but in the language I 1 of M mr r average citizen isaiah in it with a high up painting the word picture of the selling of the russian rusman crown jewels so eo that he be may ge to work with american farm machinery er we want to turn tum the glitter of our carats barats of diamonds into the glitter of american steel says the soviet these magnificent jewels were bought by dussias Rus sias former tyrants with the sweat toll and trial of our peasants we desire now to give them back to the peasants in the form of implements with which to till the ground or machinery for industries we have already turned millions of military bayonets into plowshares we wish now to turn the imperial jewels which now lire ere a dead assets asset into american tractors and farm machinery 11 russia makes no secret of the fact that she lacks money tar equipment to reconstruct hr cpr shattered industries having failed to obtain loans abroad in the last eight years a she ahe he Is obliged to utilize her own for the rehabilitation of the economic fabric the government intended to spend the receipts from grain exports for american machinery but despite the crop the he plan for collecting grain from the peasants was not fully realized and orders for foreign machinery had to be curtailed officials point out that the crown jewels are only one of many resources that russia if pressed might convert concert into cash others include mining and oil concessions and museum treasures among them several hundred dred paintings by such masters as rubens rembrandt van dyke and raphael valued at the soviet officials say they are deter however not to part with the treasures the jewels in question date from reter peter tle the creat to nicholas IL they comprise separate pieces of jewelry the total weight of the diamonds alone Is carats barats pearls sapphires sapp hires emeralds and uncut rubles 1300 and also a great variety of miscellaneous stones no other historical collection of gems whether royal or private according to the russian officials approaches pro aches the crown jewels either cither in value or historical interest the present collection does not represent all the russian crown jewels only those covering the last years yeam the jewels worn by russian potentates previous to the seventeenth century are still in the kremlin at MOSCOW or the ai ll 11 0 1 1 i V Z 1 V 4 T X M 14 1 I awer hermitage gallery at leningrad the jewels offered for sale are appraised by russian french and czechoslovakia gern gem experts variously but the average of their estimates la 19 about greater than dussias Rus sias debt to the united states of the items in the collections 20 per cent were supplied by peter the greatt 40 per cent by elizabeth catherine the great and paul 25 per cent by alexander I 1 and nicholas 1 I 10 per cent n t by alexander II 11 and alexander III and 5 per cent by nicholas 11 II so contrary cont rury to general belief the last czar and czarina were relatively moderate mo deratt in their expenditures for crown jewels during the last years of her life the empress was so absorbed in mysticism that she regarded the wearing of jewels as unlucky and cast them aside the imperial crown of all the Rus pictured herewith la Is conspicuous among the display it was made for the coronation of catherine the great in 1702 and contains diamonds 75 huge pearls and many 0 other large stones surmounting the crown Is a superb cross of diamonds supported by an uncut ruby of cara carans carats one of the worlds largest resembling sem bling the dome formed by the miter this diadem the association of the sovereign with the ar the crown Is valued at 52 next in interest comes the core coronet net worn by the slain empress alexandra picture herewith perhaps the most beautiful mass of diamonds ever brought together in a single ornament om ament it is appraised at another object of great attention Is the imperial scepter of power used by the last czar which Is s surmounted ur mounted by the world famed orloff diamond as large as aa a bisected egg and contal containing ang aw carata carats this slender graceful emblem Is valued by the at according to tradition this famous diamond lay in the forehead of an idol in cochin china until the bayonet of a french soldier pried it from its resting place that soldier deserted with his booty but murder aboard ship was his big lot then began the trull trall of death that has followed so many of the celebrated crown jewels of the world until at last an armenian benian sold it to count gregory orloff iti ili parts paris for half a million dollars and the count presented it to catherine the great as a peace offering the emblem of the imperial realm a globular object of gold surmounted by a cross of diamonds sap and rubles and valued at 24 comes next in interest among the single gems the so called shah diamond of 89 carats barats and appraised by the soviet authorities at 14 Is probably the most striking it is a unique memorial of the respect entertained for imperial russia by her mohammedan neighbors in the days before the took power the great stone abeln being g a gift to the emperor of russia by the shah of persia among the other articles are scepters and chains of fine craftsmanship containing diamonds pearls and rubles weighing us as much as 50 carata each 23 magnificent crosses many stars miscellaneous ornaments 10 gorg gorgeous c necklaces of diamonds and pear pearls ls 50 brooches breeches ten tiaras giaras nine diamond studded lockets dockets lock ets 20 pairs of earrings including one set bet of gigantic emeralds of carats barats each 42 giuy rh za 74 pins ping and 19 gold snuff boxes heavily jewe jeweled je leed at this writing the sale Is on the soviet authorities selling a minimum of worth of stones at a time the first sole sale was of diamonds emeralds and sapp sapphires hires weighing about carats barats they became the property of french diamond merchants who paid the soviet government Z tor for the lot or more than offered by american jewelers among the jewels was the magnon magni fl cent crown worn by the last empress it will be disjointed and the stones scattered on the french market jewelers from it a dozen capitals who had flocked to moscow when it was announced that the government intended to dispose of the imperial gems contended sharply against the Ime americans merl ricans cans for possession of the jewels most of the bidders bidden however retired when the government decided that it would sell only a minimum of worth of stones at one time this left the field to the anglo amer lean ican gup g up and the armenian buyer frankland Fran klano representing a number of parts firms the gov government emment had accepted Frnnk Frank lanos initial offer of when william Ite swick a new york lawyer representing the anglo ameri can group alleged to the kremlin officials that his group had not been given a fair chance to counter frank lanos bid the government thereupon annulled the sale bale and ordered new bids the anglo american then made a fresh offer of but tills this was topped by Fran frankland klano with and the gems became the property of the he firms he represented although the americans thus lost the first chance to acquire a part of the famous imperial treasures the intercession ter cession of the americans added to the bolshevik treasury which the government would otherwise have lost in the meantime the soviet government Is turning an honest penny by exhibiting tie the treasures |