Gem Kingdom

Gem Kingdom details Gems with up close & magnified color photographs and with history of Gems through the Ages. Qualities of Gems, substitutes, elite minerals, stones for collectors & craftsmen and includes a chapter at the end on Jade. This book attempts to probe into most aspects of the gem world. It illuminates the antiquity of man's interest in Gems and touches on the interplay that gems have had with his affairs through all of history. Then, too, it spends some time of the Gems themselves where and how they are found. How they are identified and distinguished from one another and how they are of to use. Because of the high intrinsic value of gems, fakes and substitutes have naturally played a part in the story. Their impact is ever changing, as modern laboratory technology finds new and improved methods of imitating.