Produced by KD Weeks, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Full page images have been moved slightly to the nearest paragraph break. They were not included in the pagination of the original. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. [Illustration: The Great Opal “The Flame Queen” Kelsey I. Newman Collection ] THE MAGIC AND SCIENCE OF JEWELS AND STONES BY ISIDORE KOZMINSKY FULLY ILLUSTRATED 39 SPECIMENS IN COLOR AND 22 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON =The Knickerbocker Press= 1922 Copyright, 1922, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons --- _Made in the United States of America_ To My Dear Wife This Book is Affectionately Dedicated PREFACE