Coalville Times | 1903-08-14 | Page 6 | Rubies Can Now be Made

RUBIES CAN NOW BE MADE. Chemists Able to Fuse 8mall Stones Into One Large Gem. In connection with recent decisions by the general board of appraisers resuming re-suming duty on Imltutlons of prerlout stones a well-known Jewelry export of Now York, through whose hands millions mil-lions of dollars worth of precious atoaoa have passed, declares that rubles, ru-bles, beautiful In color and rivaling the natural gems, today are easily produced from the chemist's crucible. The secret of tholr production which, he says, waa known In France yearn ago. bat waa kept secret, lies In the manner of fusing a number of small cheap atones Into a single large ona. It Is said the manufacture la now being be-ing carried on extensively In aovernl Kuropean countries and only the most experienced eiamlner ran detect the difference between the real stones and those from the crucible.