Burma Ruby: A History of Mogok's Rubies from Antiquity to the Present - Hardcover

Samuels, S. K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0972532307 ISBN 13: 9780972532303

Publisher: SKS Enterprises, 2003

Synopsis

Provides a general yet complete introduction to Burma, surveying that country's ancient history and culture, its experience through WWII, and its current economic situation while maintaining its focus on rubies from Burma's renowned Mogok mines.

Also addresses the topics of enhancement, heat treatment, smuggling, and provenance of rubies and discusses the unique properties of Burmese rubies and sapphires. Provides tips on buying rubies in Burma. Includes heretofore unpublished statistics about historical and recent production and sales of rubies in Burma and a hitherto unpublished listing of significant rubies and sapphires sold from 1965 to 2002.

34 b-&-w photos; 34 color plates; maps and tables.

About this title

About the Author:

S. K. Samuels was born in Rangoon, Burma, and lived through British rule, the Japanese occupation during WWII, and a post-war British transition government before seeing Burma gain her independence. After obtaining his medical degree from University of Rangoon, he worked at Mawchi Mines in Kayah State and at the civil hospital in Kengtung, in the Eastern Shan States, where the Mogok mines are located.

After moving to the U.S. in the 1960s for a long career in medicine, he earned his graduate gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America and studied mineralogy at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Frequent trips to Burma over the past twenty years have allowed him to gather a wealth of information and statistics. Able to speak Burmese, Hindi, and Urdu as well as English, he gathers together in "Burma Ruby" a lifetime of experience and knowledge, focusing it on Burma's celebrated rubies.

About this edition

• Publisher: SKS Enterprises
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0972532307
• ISBN 13: 9780972532303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272