A GROUP OF SIX STUDIES OF INDIGENOUS PACIFIC ISLANDERS, JOSEPH BEETE JUKES, 1847 Jewellery > Necklaces & Pendants that natural rubies are commonly

that natural rubies are commonly heated and gemological testing revealed characteristics consistent with those of rubies originating from Burma

'Carte de l'Amérique méridionale

four engravings with hand colouring

beige and yellow stone

mounted in platinum setting marked 'Pt900'

A GROUP OF SIX STUDIES OF INDIGENOUS PACIFIC ISLANDERS, JOSEPH BEETE JUKES, 1847 Jewellery > Necklaces & Pendants that natural rubies are commonlyComprising 'Natives of Manseed', 'Doodegab, Manoo, Warti, Darras', Natives At Cape York', 'Murray Islanders Eager for Barter', 'Treacherous Bay Eroob', 'Old Duppa, Mammoos, Seewai', six etchings with hand colouring, from 'Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Fly, Commanded by Capt Blackwood R. N. in the Torres Strait, New Guinea and the other islands of the Eastern Archipelago during the Year 1842 46', published 1847, mounted, unframed