This book is huge, it is heavy when you pick it up. If it was in the library, I bet that you would sit on the floor and hold with your crossed legs. wander through the color rich pages. I have loved gems from when a boy in second grade gave me a ruby ring from the dime store and I spent many hours as a child cracking geodes against the sidewalk. Just like those geodes, each page is a joy and and treasure.

If you have a passion for jewelry, this book so many famous broaches, necklaces. jewel encrusted crowns. All of them illustrations have captions of their historic significance or something very memorial about them. I love the pages on jade. It reminds me of going to a large jade shop being fascinated by very large green and white ship. Each page is a surprise and wonder.You will spend many hours enjoying this book on gems. There is so much to explore.

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