The Lapidary's Story single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 The Lapidary's Story
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Light English tale of a jewel lost and found in a child's toy box. A lapidary reluctantly agrees to reset a beautiful diamond from a pendant dropped by his sister, a lady's maid, on Christmas Eve. The repaired ornament is lost and ruin stares the family in the face until his son produces it from Noah's Ark. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 26 no. 308 January 1891 Z1035060 1891 periodical issue 1891 pg. 284-285
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