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Subject
Description

Issue

page#
Number
of Pages
AGATE Beggar beads of India F-W 74-75 pg 10 2
  Lake Superior Spring 70 Q pg 8 4
ALEXANDRITE & Synthetic alexandrite F-W 70-71 pg 13 2
  Gem with color change F-W 77-78 pg 19 1
  Description of carving F-W 71-72 pg 2 2
  Superstitions W-S 80 pg 18 5
  in depth treatise W-S 82 pg 5 7
AMETHYST Stone & geode acquisitions S-F 86 pg 19 2
AUSTRALIA & New Zealand F-W 71-72 pg 3 4
BAMBOO Symbolism Winter 68 Q pg 8 1
BIRTHSTONES Folklore of W-S 93 pg 2 13
  History of S-S 71 pg 27 4
  Garnet for January F-W 78-79 pg 20 3
  Amethyst for February F-W 78-79 pg 22 3
  Bloodstone & aquamarine for March S-S 77 pg 16 3
  Diamond for April S-S 77 pg 18 3
  Emerald for May S-S 77 pg 20 3
  Ruby for July F-W 77-78 pg 20 3
  Sapphire for September S-S 78 pg 15 3
  Opal & tourmaline for October S-S 78 pg 18 5
  Topaz for November S-S 78 pg 22 2
  Turquoise & zircon for December F-W 78-79 pg 16 5
CAMEOS In-depth article Summer 68 Q pg 1 6
  More about cameos W-S 80 pg 5 10
  Italian cameos S-S 77 pg 3 3
  Of stone & shell W-S 89 pg 14 6
  Description of “Neptune” W-S 90 pg 20 1
CARNELIAN Reddish chalcedony F-W 77-78 pg 21 2
CASTLE LIZZADRO Making of W-S 85 pg 3 10
  Toliday remembrance article 1996 pg 5 4
CHINA Manheim trip to Mainland S-S 76 pg 3 12
CHOPS Chinese seals S-S 79 pg 5 7
CHRYSANTHEMUM Stone with Suiseki art W-S 87 pg 13 8
CHRYSOBERYL Faceted & cat’s eye F-W 75-76 pg 20 4
CLOISONNE History & manufacture Summer 69 Q pg 11 3
COLHOUR, OLIVE Lapidary art of W-S 93 pg 15 3
COLLECTING J Lizzadro on collecting S-S 72 pg 2 3
CONCRETIONS & septeria S-F 85 pg 17 3
COPPER Largest float specimen S-S 75 pg 19 2
  Michigan history Spring 70 Q pg 1 6
  History of W-S 91 pg 2 8
  On Keweenaw Peninsula W-S 91 pg 10 5
CORAL Origins & carving Winter 69 Q pg 10 2
  In-depth presentation F-W 78-79 pg 2 11
CRAZY HORSE Thunderhead Mountain Sculpture 2001 pg 18 9
CREVOSHAY Paula, Voices of the Earth Collection 2002 pg 12 10
DIAMONDS Purchase information F-W 73-74 pg 14 10
  Famous 1998 pg 17 15
DIORAMAS Carvings, Idar-Oberstein Summer 68 Q pg 6 6
  Featuring birds Spring 69 Q pg 1 5
DIORAMAS Updated S-F 81 pg 3 14
  In collection W-S 90 pg 2 11
  Creating a scene W-S 90 pg 13 5
DRAGON Dragon symbolism Spring 68 Q pg 7 1
EGGS Art of decorating F-W 70-71 pg 15 2
ELEPHANT & Ivory S-F 83 pg 17 5
ENAMEL ART Ancient art, new expression S-F 89 pg 16 3
ENHYDRO New display W-S 80 pg 4 1
  Brazilian Winter 70 Q pg 11 1
FABERGE Styled art S-S 71 pg 19 7
  Brief history of S-F 89 pg 19 1
FACETING Techniques Winter 70 Q pg 1 7
FLOWERS Hard-stone flowers Spring 69 Q pg 8 3
FLUORESCENCE Examining phenomenon Spring 70 Q pg 12 4
FLUORITE Illinois state mineral F-W 73-74 pg 28 3
  Mineral properties W-S 82 pg 17 2
  Blue John W-S 84 pg 9 10
  Blue John carving F-W 71-72 pg 12 4
FOSSILS Bundenbach area S-S 71 pg 25 1
  Bundenbach identification S-F 81 pg 21 2
  Thomas Bones donation Spring 69 Q pg 11 1
  Local sources Summer 69 Q pg 6 5
  From Bundenbach S-F 94 pg 2 7
  Illinois Coal Age 1997 pg 21 8
  Pit 11, Mazon Creek 2000 pg 35 4
GEMSTONES Gemstones and Faceting techniques Winter 70 Q pg 1 7
  Alexandrite F-W 77-78 pg 19 1
  Chatoyancy effect F-W 75-76 pg 21 3
  Mounted Display F-W 75-76 pg 14 2
  Spodumene “onion” S-S 73 pg 30 1
  Star stones F-W 75-76 pg 9 5
  Enhancement in the 80s S-F 91 pg 2 14
  New finds 1997 pg 14 7
GEOLOGY Chicagoland’s past 1999 pg 21 9
GERMAN DISPLAY Idar-Oberstein carvings F-W 71-72 pg 28 2
GOLD Black Hills jewelry S-F 85 pg 13 4
  New gold exhibit Winter 70 Q pg 10 1
  Definition of alloys F-W 73-74 pg 26 1
GOLDSTONE Definition & history W-S 87 pg 11 1
HORNBILL Description of carving S-S 73 pg 22 4
IDAR-OBERSTEIN Historical & present S-S 71 pg 3 10
INTARSIA & mosaics Winter 69 Q pg 1 9
  Florentine mosaics F-W 72-73 pg 21 9
  Lizzadro Memorial F-W 76-77 pg 2 11
  Unveiling Lizzadro Intarsia S-S 77 pg 2 1
ITACOLUMITE Bending rock W-S 80 pg 4 1
ITALIAN MARBLE From Tuscany S-S 79 pg 21 2
IVORY Description of Last Supper F-W 70 pg 27 2
  Carvings in the Museum F-W 77-78 pg 3 8
  Eighteen Lohan W-S 88 pg 7 8
  Henry IV carving W-S 82 pg 19 2
  Past & present Spring 68 Q pg 1 6
  Oriental carvings S-F 83 pg 5 13
  Timeless beauty 2000 pg 17 9
  Trade ban 2000 pg 26 2
JADE Alaska & British Columbia S-F 87 pg 15 9
  Alaskan vases S-S 75 pg 13 6
  Carvers & carvings of W-S 84 pg 3 6
  How it was first worked W-S 86 pg 16 1
  Imperial altar set Summer 69 Q pg 1 5
  New Zealand museums & Factories S-F 84 pg 8 5
  Imitations F-W 70-71 pg 4 2
  Ruyi in Museum W-S 94 pg 2 8
  Personal ornaments 1995 pg 25 8
  Chinese fashion 1998 pg 11 6
  Pendants 1996 pg 18 10
  Jade in the Museum F-W 72-73 pg 11 11
  Small Chinese carvings S-S 75 pg 3 10
  Small pieces in Museum F-W 73-74 pg 4 10
  Guanyin S-F 89 pg 2 7
  Identification & simulants S-F 90 pg 14 4
  Dorrance collection vases S-F 90 pg 19 2
  James Lewis Kraft 2000 pg 5 9
  Polar nephrite jad 2000 pg 31 4
JET Whitby jet W-S 80 pg 15 3
JEWELRY History of S-F 88 pg 14 4
  International motifs F-W 74-75 pg 18 2
  Museum, Pforzheim, Germany S-F 86 pg 12 6
  30,000 years ago S-S 75 pg 23 2
KOSTER SITE Archeological dig F-W 73-74 pg 2 2
KUAN YIN The legend S-S 72 pg 24 8
LAPIDARY Notes on lapidary work Winter 68 Q pg 14 2
  Transcending the traditional 2002 pg 12 10
LAPIS LAZULI History & sources F-W 74-75 pg 2 8
  Gem that is a rock S-S 78 pg 17 2
LARIMAR History of S-F 87 pg 13 2
LIZZADRO MUSEUM History after 5 years Fall 67 Q pg 3 4
  History after 10 years F-W 72-73 pg 2 5
  Twentieth Anniversary W-S 83 pg 3 10
  Twenty-fifth Anniversary S-F 87 pg 7 8
  Fortieth Anniversary 2002 pg 30 7
  Rock & mineral experience S-F 85 pg 3 9
  Lizzadro School Fall 67 Q pg 14 2
LIZZADRO, JOSEPH Life and history of the Museum S-F 92 pg 2 16
LIZZADRO, MARY In memory of her contributions 2002 pg 5 7
MALACHITE Sources & carvings F-W 74-75 pg 14 4
  Urns in Collection 2001 pg 5 1
MAMMOTHS Woody Blackwell; Clovis Hunters 2001 pg 31 6
MEMORIAL BOX Nicolai Medvedev 1999 pg 5 11
METEORITES Harper College center W-S 80 pg 23 1
  Classification of S-F 91 pg 17 3
  Meteorites from Mars 1997 pg 6 8
  Expedition to Antarctica 2000 pg 28 3
MINERALS Name origins S-F 86 pg 9 3
  Outstanding specimens Spring 68 Q pg 9 6
  Cosmetics made from minerals S-F 94 pg 9 5
  Starting a collection 1995 pg 20 5
MINING Tin mines of Cornwall 1996 pg 9 9
  Quincy copper mine 1998 pg 5 6
MONGOLIAN/TIBETAN Objects in collection S-F 86 pg 3 6
MOON ROCK NASA lunar specimen F-W 72-73 pg 8 3
  Revisited S-S 79 pg 3 2
MOONSTONE Form of Feldspar F-W 77-78 pg 18 1
MOSAICS And intarsias Winter 69 Q pg 1 9
  Brief history W-S 92 pg 2 11
  Roman in collection W-S 92 pg 13 7
  Roman, World in Miniature 2001 pg 6 5
MOUNTAINS Hardstone, carved S-S 77 pg 6 7
MUCHNA Faceted Quartz Fantasies 2002 pg 22 8
OBITUARY Hillmer, Max Summer 69 Q pg 14 1
  Dreher, Herman P. Fall 68 Q pg 8 1
  Kettering, Eugene Summer 69 Q pg 14 1
  Lizzadro, Joseph F. S-S 73 pg 2 3
  Nance, Myrtle E. F-W 75-76 pg 16 1
  Nolan Jr., Arthur A. 2002 pg 37 1
  Walvoord, Dr. Carl 1996 pg 37 1
  Lizzadro, Terese K. 1997 pg 5 1
  Horning, Florence 2001 pg 37 1
OBSIDIAN History & animal collection S-F 88 pg 8 6
OPAL Sources & carvings F-W 71-72 pg 21 7
  In-depth review S-F 82 pg 7 6
  History & variety S-F 90 pg 5 9
  Australian Classification 1999 pg 16 5
ORIENTAL LACQUERWARE Making of & history S-F 88 pg 2 6
PEARLS Lustrous organic gems F-W 77-78 pg 16 2
  Pearl buttons and Museum 1998 pg 32 6
PEKING GLASS In-depth article W-S 87 pg 5 6
PERIDOT The evening emerald F-W 77-78 pg 22 2
PETRIFIED WOOD In-depth discussion S-S 74 pg 10 19
  Stone forests S-F 89 pg 13 3
PHANTOM CRYSTALS Crystal inclusions F-W 77-78 pg 15 1
PLATINUM And rare metals S-S 74 pg 29 3
POLYHEDROIDS Mineral world oddities F-W 77-78 pg 11 2
PREHISTORIC Visit to Stonehenge 1996 pg 28 9
PUZZLE BALL Carving techniques S-S 74 pg 4 5
PYRITE SUNS And marcasite jewelry F-W 76-77 pg 22 2
QUARTZ Crystals & carvings F-W 70-71 pg 16 11
  Faceted monuments of Jerry Muchna 1995 pg 33 4
  Jerry Muchna in depth 2002 pg 8 8
SCEPTERS In-depth review W-S 83 pg 22 6
SCOTTISH AGATES Sources of raw agate Spring 69 Q pg 6 2
SCOTTISH JEWELRY. In-depth history Fall 68 Q pg 1 7
  In-depth discussion W-S 91 pg 15 4
SCREEN, IMPERIAL In-depth description Winter 68 Q pg 1 5
  Symbolism in screen F-W 70-71 pg 7 6
SCRIMSHAW History & techniques F-W 76-77 pg 13 7
  American folk art 1995 pg 4 13
  Interview with Richard Kovanda 1995 pg 17 2
SEALS Chinese chops S-S 79 pg 5 7
SEMINAR On Jade F-W 72-73 pg 7 1
SEPTARIA Concretions & Septaria S-F 85 pg 17 4
  Utah nodules S-F 81 pg 17 2
SERPENTINE Cactus, McDurmitt collection W-S 88 pg 2 5
SILVER Silver Islet, Upper Michigan 1999 pg 30 2
SNUFF BOTTLES Specimens, Museum display Fall 69 Q pg 1 9
  In Lizzadro collection W-S 86 pg 6 11
SUISEKI The art of W-S 87 pg 13 8
SYMBOLISM Chinese symbolism S-S 73 pg 4 12
  Chinese dragons Spring 68 Q pg 7 1
  Animal symbolism S-F 89 pg 9 4
  Egyptian scarab 1997 pg 29 8
THEFT Gemstone stolen F-W 75-76 pg 13 3
TIFFANY Marshall Field dome S-F 88 pg 18 1
TOURMALINE Fighting roosters S-S 79 pg 2 1
TOURQUOISE History & carving F-W 71-72 pg 16 4
ZIGGY Making & diorama F-W 75-76 pg 3 6

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