Mineralogical Record, January 1st, 2004
"World Famous" was the theme of the 1975 show, held on February 14-16. The admission and the show hours remained unchanged from last year. The wholesale section was not in the regular entrance-level room near the escalator; it had to be moved and, as usual, opened a day earlier, February 13.
Certainly the 12,000-carat faceted yellow-green topaz sphere from the Smithsonian was soon to become world famous. At 13.5 inches in diameter this sparkling beauty, faceted from Brazilian topaz in Idar-Oberstein in 1973, was something special to see.
In the realm of carved gems Gerhard Becker and Erwin P...
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