Show Is THIS the Worlds World's LARGEST GEM SAM now holds the palm for the U UNCLE largest uncut gem that is said ever to have been discovered A giant black opal flawless flawless flawless flaw flaw- less devoid of any dimming matrix and weighing accordi according g to the balances in the office of the assayer assayer assayer as- as sayer of the treasury department 1695 Troy ounces with a tiny fraction to spare recently was privately exhibited in the office of the Secretary y u tw SC ra 3 C ri bG Giant Nevada Opal That Weighs Nearly Seventeen Ounces of the Interior by Mr Archie Rice of San Francisco In color the new gem Is a commingled glow of cf translucent greens and blues very deep in tint and is shot with flames of red Roughly estimated estimated esti esti- mated maW the mass of the stone is 21 cubic inches Its Ito weight in carats is in grains No determination has yet been reached as to this opals opal's intrinsic value It was discovered two years gears CArs a ago o in the mines of southern Navada The nearest t approach to Americas America's record- record br breaking king opal is the famous Viennese opal dis dis- covered in northern Hungary in 1770 That gem not flawless as is the American champ is approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately two-thirds two the size of the American find The Viennese opal weighs 1093 Troy ounces or carats rats which translated into grains is The mass of the Viennese stone is roughly 13 cubic inches The value of the Viennese stone which in view of the fact that it has flaws not possessed by the world-beating world American gem em gives some sonic slight idea of the value of its successor in preeminence preeminence preeminence pre pre- eminence has been fixed at It never has changed hands at that price but that is the value at which it is held by its possessors who have refused successively offers of and for it The shape and apparent size of or the American stone is like a quarter of a brick Its length is 3 16 15 inches its width 3 inches and its thickness thickness thickness thick thick- ness 16 13 1 16 3 inches The Viennese stone ston which is wedge shaped is 4 inches long 2 21 Ms inches wide and its thickness varies from 3 inches to J Ih inch The new stone is at present held by its possessors pos lessors to be worth at l least ast that is what they hope it might bring in the gem mar mar- ket It was discovered more than two years ago but the discovery was not announced for the reason reaBon reason rea rea- son Bon that in the emergency of war it was felt that for the in introduction in the time was neither ripe nor seemly of such a stupendous luxury to the gem buyers and gem em wearers of the world The iridescence of the new gem is its remarkable remark remarkable able feature according to those who have seen it For half an hour the group sat spellbound as they watched the play of the fiery red orange-red flares through the mellow emerald and sapphire tones of the stone itself The colors seemingly tremble in in the light ever moving throughout the mass mass of the gem There are no dull spots The flashes are everywhere and continuous |