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...Crown. In the bloody days of partition, when fierce Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir in the fall of 1947, the Maharaja fled with his jade and the necklaces from the temple gods. He paused only to declare his land a part of India, and to appoint Sheik Abdullah Prime Minister. And although Abdullah and 77% of the Kashmiris were Moslems, Abdullah organized a People's Militia that fought the Pakistanis until the Indian army flew in to the rescue. It was a desperate defense, and the Lion of Kashmir inspired it. Once, the Pakistani tribesmen lashed a young merchant...
...painted cavity below lay the all but pulverized skeleton of a middle-aged man. His fine cloth raiment was in tatters, but his burial jewelry made as rich a display as it had when he was interred 13 centuries ago. A jade diadem covered his skull, and chunky jade earrings lay where his ears had been. A jade mask with inlaid emerald eyes covered his face. Inside the mouth was a jade bead, and a long jade necklace hung over a beaded breastplate...
...crumbling collarbone he wore a pearl as large as a walnut. His right hand held a large jade cube, his left a jade sphere. Jade ornaments stood by his feet, and nearby were two jade idols. Popeyed and sporting neat goatees, the idols looked like Mayan sun gods. Dr. Ruz's hunch had paid...
Kraft thinks his church's new window is a fitting climax for his rugged hobby. Ten years ago no one thought there was enough good jade in all the North American continent for such a thing. It took Kraft and a small army of prospector friends five years to prove them wrong. Roaming the U.S., they found the bright greens in tiny pockets from Alaska to Wyoming, discovered the rare rose jade in a single small boulder in California, the even rarer white jade in a steep Arizona canyon. Kraft studied great windows of the past, decided that...
...knows how valuable Chicago's new window really is. Kraft guesses that the jade and labor that went into it, if ordered in the market, would have come to perhaps $1,500,000. But Baptist Kraft is not thinking about the value. Jade, he says, has a special place in a Christian church: "From the beginning of time, jade has symbolized truth, goodness and beauty...