Word: carat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Rose has rarely consisted of a single rose. The one given to Queen Elizabeth has 19 buds and full-blown blossoms, and 290 leaves. Petals and leaves the Pope's cunning goldsmiths have beaten out of 22-carat gold, just as some 400 years ago self-righteous, scapegrace Goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini beat out ingenious knicknacks for Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII). These smiths have tinted lightly the petals of this Rose with pink, the leaves with green, so that the spray glistens with a heart-stopping iridescence of varied movement and light. To aid verisimilitude the spray contains...
...ceramics and gems, says that synthetic jewels of as good practical and esthetic value as the natural gems are now being made in quantity. Artificial rubies and sapphires of various colors are made from alumina, by the addition of varying chromic or ferric oxides. They sell at $2.00 a carat...