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The Burmah Ruby Mines. — In reply to a question by Sir R. Lethbridge in the House of Commons last month as to whether the Government recognised the preferential claim of Messrs. Streeter to a lease of the mines, and whether any report on the subject had lately been received, Sir John Gorst said the Government have never recognised any preferential claim on the part of any person to a lease of the Ruby Mines. Reports had been received, and would be laid on the table when a lease has been granted.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st December 1888
Some days ago at Arthur Pitson’s, in Bond Street (Edwin Streeter’s old place), I had the pleasure of seeing some of the latest designs for the coming season—exquisite, unset groups of gems, fastened on thick pieces of white paper, wonderful blendings of new, pale-colored stones in crescents and stars, bracelets, glittering circlets of the wine-colored topaz of India, the pale white radiance of the moon-stone, the lucky cats-eye, flanked on either side by canary diamonds—all to be produced to decoy the ducats out of the purses of visitors, who are expected in shoals this Jubilee year of grace.
Recently there were on view at Christie’s two objects, carefully constructed by Messrs. Streeter, the eminent jewellers : one, an exact reproduction of Aaron’s breastplate ; the other, a reconstruction of the ‘ pearly gates’ after the description in the Book of Revelation.
Source: The Nineteenth Century and After - May 1905
Mr. Streeter has had a very handsome, substantial new front put into his establishment, which I venture to think is an immense improvement on the old one. He is also booming the chrysophase, for which purpose he has had one window set apart and covered with velvet of chrysophase green. There is more novelty in the chrysophase; as an article of expensive jewelry; than in the designs in which it is made up, which are for the most part prosaic and commonplace.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st December 1892