Jewel Collection (page 7)

Poporo. Lime container used to carry the lime to the mouth while chewing coca leaves. Poporos are also attributed with mystical powers and social status

Chimu Pendant. Chimu art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum. Proc: PERU

Pinhead with mythological figure. Pre-Columbian art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum. Proc: COLOMBIA. CAUCA. Restrepo

Gold stick handle with figure of a bird. Majagual (Sucre). Made by lost-wax casting process. Sinu art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum

Gold ceremonial mask. Calima art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum

Gold breastplate with anthropomorphic figure. Quimbaya art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum

Anthropomorphic gold figure decorated with a nose ring. Quimbaya art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum

Muisca gold pendant. The tunjo of a warrior with tapering legs, reed-like, bent arms, one hand clasping an axe, solely adorned with a headdress and jewelry. 1300-1500. Chibcha art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA

Cover of Saint Isabels bible, 13th century. Late Byzantine art. Jewelry. ITALY. FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA. UDINE. Cividale del Friuli. Archaeological Museum

Urn. Biconical ossuary, 8-9th c. BC. Etruscan art. Jewelry. ITALY. LAZIO. Rome. National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia

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Earring. 4th BC. Etruscan art. Jewelry

Anthropomorphic figure of a man seated with nose ring. Quimbaya art. Ceramics. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum

Staff Head. Bronze, 17 cm. 4th century BC. Proceeds from Alexandropol Barrow, Ukraine. Scythian Art. Jewelry. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum. Proc: UKRAINE

Stick handle with figure of a stag 7th BC. Bronze. Proceeds from Kuban, Russia. Scythian Art. Jewelry. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum. Proc: TURKEY. BLACK SEA COAST

Brass belt buckle with encrusted glasses, 7th century. It belongs to the Treasure of Torredonjimeno. Visigothic art. Jewelry. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Cross and letters with inlay of precious stones belonging to the Treasury of Torredonjimeno. 7th c. Visigothic art. Jewelry. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Circular Fibula studded with rhinestones, 7th. century. Visigothic art. Jewelry. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Visigothic fibula, 7th c
Fibula of arc with trilaminate plates. 7th century. Visigothic art. Jewelry. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Candelabrum. Islamic art
Candelabrum. 13th c. Detail with a hunting scene. Made silver and copper. Islamic art. Jewelry. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Museum of Islamic Arts

Childrens Jewel Fund Sale of Dolls, WW1
A variety of examples of dolls on sale at Sutherland House in aid of the Childrens Jewel Fund, which raised money for infant welfare centres around the country

Fire in the Tower of London, rescuing the Crown Jewels
Breaking into the strong room in the Jewel Tower at the Tower of London to rescue the Crown Jewels during a fire in 1841. Date: 1841

Closing Jewel House at Tower of London during 1937 Coronatio
A Yeoman warder pinning up the Lord Chamberlains notice on the Wakefield Tower in the Tower of London, announcing that owing to the removal of the Regalia the place will be closed until May 17

General Sir Hugh H. Gough, Vanity Fair, Spy
General SIR HUGH HENRY GOUGH (1833 - 1909) Indian born, British Army General. and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest

John Jewel, Bishop
JOHN JEWEL English churchman, bishop of Salisbury Date: 1522 - 1571

King George V and Queen Mary - Within Crown
God Bless King George V and Queen Mary! Pair of portraits set within a Regal Crown setting. Date: circa 1912

The Etimad-ud-Daulas Tomb, Agra
Etimad-ud-Daulas Tomb (I timad-ud-Daulah ka Maqbara) - a Mughal mausoleum in the city of Agra in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Chinese Fiddles - Two kinds of Saw Chine or Chinese fiddles are shown here. The first is a Saw Duang, identified by the jewels around one of th pegs

Morganite
This gemstone is 600 carats and one of the worlds largest Morganite specimens

Opal necklace given to the museum in 1958

Plaster mould recording the original shape of the Koh-i-Noor
Made in 1851 before the diamond was re-cut to a brilliant oval. This cast records the Mogul-style cut of the Koh-i-Noor diamond

Corundum group
A collection of crystals including ruby and sapphire particolor, ruby rhomboid, and hexagonal cut sapphire

Sapphire turban button
A rose-cut facetted deep-blue sapphire mounted in a button of quartz, inlaid with gold, rubies & emeralds. No 198 in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane

Topaz comprises of (aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide). This is a specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Opal

Rubellite (Tourmaline) decoratively carved pendant. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Diamond crystals
Clockwise from top left (yellow matrix): in beach conglomerate from Namaqualand, in kimberlite from South Africa and in matrix from Siberia (bottom)

A selection of topaz cut stones
Topaz is the hardest silicate mineral and comprises of (aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide)

Freshwater pearls are formed within freshwater mollusc shells. They do not appear as spherical shapes as oyster pearls do and they are less valuable

Gemstone series: sapphire
Sapphire, the blue variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). Sapphire can be found in a number of different colours. Specimen at the Natural History Museum, London

Birthstone Series: Peridot
Peridot, a gemstone from the Natural History Museum, London. Peridot is the birthstone for the month of August (along with Sardonyx). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Birthstone Series: Blue Topaz

Birthstone Series: Topaz
Topaz has a chemical composition of aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide and is the birthstone for the month of November (along with Citrine). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Fairy fly in Dominican amber

Kor-i-noor replica
An exact copy of the original Kor-i-noor diamond created from cubic zirconia by John Nels Hatleberg (Cat 157). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Birthstone Series: Garnet
Garnet has a chemical composition of iron aluminium silicate. It is the birthstone of the month of January. Gemstone from the Natural History Museum collections, in London

Diamond with garnet
Red garnet crystal in an octagonal, step-cut diamond. Diamond comprises of compacted carbon and is the hardest natural substance known on Earth

Citrine and amethyst are both varieties of quartz (silicon dioxide)

Sapphire
A six-rayed star blue sapphire. Sapphires derives from the corundum mineral group which is the second hardest group known

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