[122] This tendency is as common as ever in the East, particularly among high-class natives of India, on account of the prevailing belief that the only safe way to invest money is to purchase precious stones and similar articles of intrinsic or sterling value. (See Nineteenth Century, LVIII, p. 290, 1905, “The origin of money from ornament.”)
[123] Proc. Soc. Antiq., XIV, p. 180.
[124] Reproduced by Quaritch in 1897 from a copy now in the possession of Mr. Max Rosenheim.
[125] Lichtwark (A.), Der Ornamentstich der deutschen Frührenaissance, p. 111.
[126] Most of Mielich’s works have been reproduced by Hefner-Alteneck in his Deutsche Goldschmiede-Werke des 16ten Jahrhunderts.
[127] Jannettaz, Diamant et pierres précieuses, p. 423.
[128] Bucher, Geschichte der technischen Künste, II, p. 307.
[129] La collection Spitzer, III, p. 53.
[130] Brewer (J. S.), Henry VIII, I, p. 10.
[131] Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, II, p. 1441, etc.; III, p. 1533, etc.