gems, pearls, Australia, Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, jade

Sinkankas: Kornitzer’s first book. Fascinating and eminently readable accounts of adventures as a pearl buyer in the Philippines (an especially valuable part), in Broome, Australia, and at many other places and cities in the Far East. One chapter is devoted to jade. This work established the style that was adopted for all his other books, each written in a humorous, sometimes wry manner, and emphasizing the human side of the gem trade but by no means neglecting the practical and scientific aspects of the business. Rev. G & G, 2, 5, 1937, 89. This work, much edited, appeared serially in The Gemmologist, London, in vol. 12, issues: p. 36–39, to vol. 20, no. 234, p. 19–21, 1951, ca. 2–3 pp.