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Show CROWN JEWEL IS IMITATION British Custodian Is Trying to Solve Mystery When Stone Was Substituted. London. Sir George Tounghusband, keeper of the Jewel house at the Tower of London, has just revealed the fact that one of the British crown jewels, of which he is custodian, Is an Imitation. The stone was believed to be a magnificent aquamarine, but proved on examination to be only a piece of colored glnss. It figured first In the crown of King James II. The mystery of when imitation was substituted sub-stituted for the real stone has not been solved. |