{"id":1645,"date":"2012-12-18T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2012-12-18T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:29:40","slug":"photos-of-lost-russian-crown-jewels-found-in-us-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2012\/12\/18\/photos-of-lost-russian-crown-jewels-found-in-us-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Lost Russian Crown Jewels Found In US Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photograph of this tiara was found in the lost album.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON, December 18 (RIA Novosti) – Long-lost photographs of four undocumented Russian crown jewels have been discovered in the rare books room of a US library, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Photo U.S. Geological Survey Department of the Interior\/USGS<\/div>\n

The previously undocumented brooch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Librarians discovered the four photographs in a 90-year-old unlabeled album at the USGS Library in Virginia, Richard Huffine, director of the USGS Libraries Program, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Researchers described the discovery as \u201cunique,\u201d noting that the photographs were not included in \u201cRussia\u2019s Treasure of Diamonds and Precious Stones,\u201d a book widely considered to be the most complete inventory of the Russian Crown Jewels.<\/p>\n

The four newly discovered pieces include a sapphire and diamond tiara, a sapphire bracelet, an emerald necklace, and a sapphire brooch in the shape of a bow.<\/p>\n

The book had been shelved under the \u201cminerals and gemstones\u201d category, and librarians stumbled across it while searching for pre-1923 books to be digitized, Huffine said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen librarians pulled the book looking for interesting material to be scanned, they observed the 1922 date and decided to investigate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Photo U.S. Geological Survey Department of the Interior\/USGS<\/div>\n

This necklace was among long-lost Russian crown jewels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

They quickly determined the material was an unpublished album of photographs of the Russian crown jewels, including the four photographs that were not previously known to exist.<\/p>\n

The photographs originally belonged to the personal collection of the late George F. Kunz, a mineralogist and gemologist who worked for the agency, according to the library.<\/p>\n

USGS librarians are consulting with experts around the globe to trace the history of the newly discovered jewels.<\/p>\n

Original article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, December 18 (RIA Novosti) – Long-lost photographs of four undocumented Russian crown jewels have been discovered in the rare books room of a US library, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said Tuesday.   \u00a9 Photo U.S. Geological Survey Department of the Interior\/USGS The previously undocumented brooch Librarians discovered the four photographs in a 90-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}