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Subject:	onyx question
From:	"Martin C. Tangora" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	B-P Golden Oldies: "The listserv troubled by a bad conscience and a good memory."" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:33:20 -0500
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>Does/did (1912) onyx come in whole panels, say 3' x 4'?

I know a Chicago architect who has a dining-room table in onyx.
As I recall, it's made of four slabs butted side by side.
Each slab may be 15 by 30 or something like that.

They were salvaged from a mansion in demolition.
That building had onyx wainscoting.  Of course
this was quite a while ago. 

I believe it's like rosewood, or premium mahogany, etc.
All the best stuff is gone now.  Need to give the planet
a few million years' rest so she can replenish herself.




Martin C. Tangora	
University of Illinois at Chicago
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