Show PUZZLES FOR the disco discovery very of a parisian Parl manufacturer fac who is mailing malting rubles and sapphires sapp hires of large size by an ingenious process is likely to cause trouble among english as it has done already among french jewelers and dealers in precious stones A london gentleman who has learned the secret of the process from the manufacturer himself informed an au express representative recently that these rubles and sapphires sapp hires are made by taking the remnants of cut stones and also small and badly shaped stones which by themselves are of little value and making them up by means of the electrical furnace and high pressure molde molds to any alay size required 1 I 1 have some rubles rubios and sapphires sapp hires thus manufactured ranging in size up to half an inch t he said these stones are called constructed rubles and constructed sapphires sapp hires and they possess all the quality of the original stone indeed the only way to detect the difference between the constructed and original stone is to look at the grain or silk as jewelers call it through a powerful microscope the silk is straight in the original stone and curly or cloudy in the constructed ted one A firm of london pawnbrokers pawn brokers advanced more than pounds a month a go on a constructed ruby of course it was not worth anything like pounds but that wag was the market price of an original stone of the same size the ratio of value between the constructed and original stone is about two fifths you can see however that one la Is perfectly sate we in wearing these stones I 1 am told that the ruby trade in england la Is already suffering in anticipation for jewelers who are are fully aware of the existence of these constructed stones also know that large quantities of them will soon appear in the english engligh market london express |