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Show Portraiture on Jewol. j Probably tho best hit of portraiture I done on any jewel Is that of tho head of Mlthrldntes, the undent king of j Poutus, This deep violet Imago was ; (Uncovered many years ago lu India. The largest sculptured or carved work with an amethyst as the medium consists con-sists of the IniHi of Trajan, tho Roman , emperor. This adornment, formerly In tho pos&e8.sloii of tlio PriiMiInn court, I mysteriously disappeared when Nupo-' Nupo-' leon occupied tho city of Ilorlln. .Ills-j .Ills-j torlans allege that sumo of his generals had tuklug ways, The work of art tutu linen loM to thu world since the tlmo of this Invasion by "the little corporal." -'. ' t V "M 'I |