Re: Rubies are found in Australia Archived Message
Posted by Beth1 on April 8, 2014, 7:21 pm, in reply to "Re: A South Australian Silver Wedding Gift to the Princess of Wales 1889"
Posters might be interested in this item http://www.minelinks.com/alluvial/ruby4.html (scroll down to read about Australia) It may be possible that the so called rubies were garnets. That may account for why inverted commas were used. --Previous Message-- : : I really don't know Baxter. The article used : the word both ways, in marks and out. : I was not aware that Australia erver : produced rubies. : : : --Previous Message-- : : Thanks for the info, Nellie. I noticed that : in the description of the necklace the word : rubies was in quotation marks. Does this : imply that a different stone was used? : : :
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