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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gregsglass, post: 306758, member: 78&quot;]Hi,</p><p>&nbsp; The church in Brooklyn that had the fire damage that I helped repair has a statute with a huge amethyst gold ring. The fire had loosened the large stone.</p><p>I removed it and a jeweler from the MET examined it and said it was glass. I found in old church papers that the stone was a real amethyst. I was confused until an old member of the church came forward and said check the 1961 meeting records. There it was the stone had been removed and sold. A glass replacement was purchased and it was replaced. I asked him if any others were replaced, he said he did not know but since it was his birthstone</p><p>he remembered. I spent a few days reading the old business meetings and found some other interesting things. The everyday green vestments seemed too plain to be original. The original green set was given to an old priest in lieu of payment for his back salary. I found an photo of the original set which had shamrocks covering the green silk all hand stitched over all 25 pieces of vestments. They were replaced with plain green rayon. The 50s was the time that most of the original wealthy families moved from Brooklyn out to Long Island. Thus began the decline in the churches income. </p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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