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Moi-même - taking a break at my office at House of Emeralds
Brazil, Australia, Indonesia, Siberia - Dodging Bullets in Mindanao, Basilan, Jolo
Islands and along the Cambodian Border - The fascination with gemstones continued.
Subsequent purchases of emeralds, imperial topazes and Santa Maria blue aquamarines
were made in the State of Minas Gerais and in Bahia in Brazil, where I even found beautiful
gemstones of imperial topaz. Also I combed the Amazon areas in Peru, Colombia and
Brazil, but found nothing there. In Mindanao, Basilan and Jolo islands, I had close
encounters with the Abu Sayaf guerillas, got shot at, managed to keep my head on my
shoulders with a narrow escape, but came back empty-handed.
I purchase beautiful black opals at the Cooper Pedy mines of Australia. In Siberia, I had
a chance to get rough diamonds from the lake Baikal region, but with the KGB watching at
close range, I decided that it was not worth taking any risks. In Southeast Asia - along the
borders of Thailand with Myanmar (Burma), I got beautiful pigeon-blood color rubies and
beautiful star sapphires. In India I was able to find rare cornflower blue Kashmir sapphires.
My excursions with five armed bodyguards, through checkpoints north of Chantaburri, near
the Cambodia border, three miles away from the Khmer Rouge forces, turned out to be the
most exciting and dangerous of my journeys. I did not know who to fear more, the Khmer
Rouge or my armed bodyguards, but I managed to return to Bangkok, in spite of some close
calls for early departure to the heavens. Everything turned out fine and I ended up with a
nice collection of both rubies and sapphires - including beautiful green sapphires.
With stones from my trips, I subsequently manufactured jewelry for my two stores in Rio,
Hong Kong, Bangkok, Greece and Cordova, Spain. A subsequent armed robbery of my
Eaton Square store, practically wiped me out of most of my inventory so I had to sell my
properties, get money, and start all over again. In subsequent years, I had a brief reversal of
fortune and managed to acquire a beautiful house with swimming pool, a yacht and even
begun collecting antique Rolls Royces. But I did not heed the advice of a very rich friend