NEW YORK — Inside a grand room filled with sparkly shiny stones, the Subway Garnet is no longer a hidden gem.
“It’s called the Subway Garnet. Unfortunately, it wasn’t found during the subway excavation, because that happened another 10 or 15 years later. This was exhumed during the sewer excavation, and so the Sewer Garnet is not a very euphonious name, so it got re-labeled the Subway Garnet,” curator George Harlow said while busy at work.
And yet the prized nine-pound specimen found in 1885 hasn’t been on display for almost 40 years as it fell out of favor over the decades.
“So all of those flat surfaces, those are
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