Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — PRIZED BY CAMEO CARVERS [ARTICLE]

PRIZED BY CAMEO CARVERS

Sardonix, August Birthstone, Always a Favorite With Workers In Such Things of Art. ■■ —1« w It Is usually with considerable disappointment that the woman born in August learns that her birthstone is the sardonix, and even the fact that that stone is said to insure conjugal for the fact that it is not ranked as one of the precious stones and is not a gem of great Leauty. But with the revival in interest in cameos no August-born woman with a real taste for beautiful objects of art ought to wish for any other blrthstone, an exchange says. Sihdonlx it is in the old Usts and sardonix it ought to remain in spite of the newer lists that have been made to give everyone an attractive gem. The sardonix has always been a favorite stone with cameo engravers. If you* recall your trip through the Vatican galleries when you were in Rome, perhaps you recall seeing there the famous Carpegna cameo, said to be the largest work of its kind ever accomplished. It represents the triumph of Basshus and Ceres and is worked on a sardonix stone of five layers, each layer contributing part of the color to the cameo, which measures somewhat more than a foot square.