Show I CRYSTAL REPLICA OF CULLINAN GEM GEMIS GEMi GEMIs i IS EXHIBITED IN SALT LAKE CITY I I I i i T i 1 i ie e v 5 5 c 5 f w r 4 These pictures are from photographs of the genuine Cullinan The up pir jr picture shows the gem in its rough state and below are arc shown the two finished diamonds The north snow show sh window of the Boid Bord Park Jewelry i s store at lH i South Main Mam street Is attracting crowds of tho the curious there being on exhibition a n I crystal reproduction of oC the famous Culli Cullinan Cullinan Cullinan nan diamond in its rough form as aR found Jan 26 G 1005 1905 in the debris of the Premier mine at Pretoria South Africa The original gem Is one of the tle wonders of or the world weighing carats or a trifle more than 1 I pound 6 ounces avoirdupois pois The tone stone was vas split cut and pol polished polIshed forming two mo Jewel now known as Cullinan 1 t weighing wel 16 carats and Cullinan 2 carats The enormous value of or the gem precluded the possibility po of finding a buyer buer bu er in its rough state and It was finally decided to present pr nt It to King Edward VII VIE as a gift from the Transvaal government nt The rough gem was placed in the hands of or the Bros of Amsterdam Hoi Hol Holland Hoiland land said to be bt the most skillful experts in the th world and was as by b them split spilt into two parts nan tut ut into haDe and polished hran 1 tn largest of tie tl two stones has cut tut ut in a 5 pear shape and will Ill grace the tile crown of oC Queen Alexandra of England Cullinan 2 the smaller maller is to tobe tobe tobe be set in the hilt of a sword intended for forKing forKing forKing King Edward The Grand Mogul Io ul the largest diamond known hitherto weighs 79 corals carats and the famous but being the only Kerns gems ems In the world nearly approach approaching ing the Cullinan Neither of them is either flawless as all is the tle Cullinan or per perfect lr feet In color The Cullinan Is a pure blue gem of at the first water and is without de dt defect defeet feet The rough stone has lias a perfectly flat fiat surface on one side aids Rid and it i Li believed that a natural naturI cleavage has lias taken place during the ages past and that some IOme day another portion of or the same HamO stone may maybe ma mabe maybe be found Should this not Occur diamond experts state that It I Is Improbable that another gem geni approaching the wonderful perfection of the Cullinan will ever be bl found |