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Show Pearl, Opal, Sapphire Fit for Giant to Wear Imagine a pearl so large that if dropped on your head from a height of six feet it would crush your skull. Such a pearl was brought from the Philippine Islands, Is-lands, where it was found inside an immense shell fish called the Tridacna. It weighs 14 pounds and is nine inches long and five and a quarter inches thick. It is easily the largest pearl ever found, yet has no value except as a curiosity, curi-osity, for only a giant could wear such a gem. The world's largest opal was re cently discovered in the United States. It is what is called a black opal, is flawless, but contains con-tains no less than 21 cubic inches of material, and so, like the Culli-nan Culli-nan diamond, has to be cut up before be-fore sale. In 1929 a sapphire was dug up at Magok which is described as being the size of a teacup, yet all these stones are child's play compared with a beryl dug up at Grafton, N. H. This measured 45 by 24 inches and weighed 2V2 tons. |