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Show rr.CCIOUS 8TONES AND "PA8TE." f Imitations Now Can Only Be Detected by Experts. Glass or "paste," as It Is called, Is rade which cannot when new be distinguished dis-tinguished from diamonds by any one lint an expert armed with the neces sar tests. And tho same Is true as to paste Imitations of nil precious stones excepting tho emerald (whoso beautiful green lint cannot be exactly exact-ly obtained), tho cat's-eyp, v;)ilch has u peculiar fibrous structure, and tho opal. The real value and quality of piccloiis stones as compared with glnss depends on their durability, their huidncss, their leslstnnco to scratching scratch-ing nnd "dulling" of fnco and edge. h.en our Anglo-Sjaxon ancestors, as I saw a week ago In tho fine collection collec-tion recently dug up nt Ipswich by Miss Layard, mado gems of glass and paste, Bays a writer In tho London Telegraph. It Is .only In modem mod-em times that tho art of making artificial ar-tificial "precious stones" had reached a degrco of perfection which, so far as docoratlvo purposes are concerned, lenves tho natural stones no claim to superiority. |