Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . VISAPOUS RUBY. weighed 17^ carats. It was purchased by thismonarch, in 1G53, for 74,550 livres (814,910).Another, weighing 50^ carats uncut, and not ofa very fine water, measuring about an inch inlength and three-quarters in diameter throughthe thickest part, was offered to him at Banarousfor 55,000 rupees; but he refused it, offering60,000 livres without success. This difference in tlie ask-ing and offering prices is ex-plained by M. Taverniers as-sertion that he could not buyrubies in the East; on the con-trary, he found it to h
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . VISAPOUS RUBY. weighed 17^ carats. It was purchased by thismonarch, in 1G53, for 74,550 livres (814,910).Another, weighing 50^ carats uncut, and not ofa very fine water, measuring about an inch inlength and three-quarters in diameter throughthe thickest part, was offered to him at Banarousfor 55,000 rupees; but he refused it, offering60,000 livres without success. This difference in tlie ask-ing and offering prices is ex-plained by M. Taverniers as-sertion that he could not buyrubies in the East; on the con-trary, he found it to his profitto take them from Europe tosell in Asia. And yet, withthis he gives a drawing of alarge Balais ruby, which heTH KuuY brouglit from India to theoFTAVERNiEK. j^j^^^ Francc. He also gives an account of one weighing five carats,found in Bohemia, and presented to the Viceroyof Ilungaiy by General Wallenstein, Dake
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