| In the inventory of the crown jewels of France, the price of balas rubies is four or five times less than that of spinels. |
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| The coronation crown featured large balas rubies, surrounded by emeralds, pearls, oriental sapphires, and rubies. |
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| A highlight will also be a visit to Badakhshan's long lost balas ruby mines and a side trip to the Russian emerald mines. |
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| Some garnets, e.g., Arizona ruby, Bohemian ruby, Cape ruby, and some spinels, e.g., balas ruby, ruby spinel, are ruby colored. |
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| The passage offers a poetic description of the Buddhas and their former adornments of painted robes and balas rubies. |
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| Anything goes, including gauds of pearls, of enameled gold, even of balas rubies and sapphires. |
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| Hence, in 1402, Berry convinced the king to open the royal coffers and disburse 14,000 of the 18,000 ecus he needed to purchase a fabulous balas ruby. |
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| Set with three balas rubies, pearls, and a central diamond, the Three Brothers passed among European royalty to raise money for armies until bought by the Tudors. |
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| Ironically red spinels, often referred to in ancient texts as balas rubies, are actually more rare than ruby but, unlike ruby, they can sometimes be found in very large sizes. |
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| The crown is lavishly decorated with twenty pearls and ninety-six gemstones including sapphires, rubies, balas rubies, emeralds and lynx sapphires. |
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| Richard II had a coat, valued at thirty thousand marks, which was covered with balas rubies. |
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| What substance has varieties called boart, balas and carbonado? |
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