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George Frederick Kunz

(Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932)

George Frederick Kunz (1856-1932) was among the first to recognize the beauty of the Yogo sapphire and the commercial potential of the Yogo dike. many of the Yogos collected by Kunz became part of the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection which is now in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In 1895, Kunz was the gemologist with Tiffany & Co., who identified the cigar box full of blue pebbles collected by Jake Hoover.
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George Frederick Kunz (September 29, 1856 – June 29, 1932) was an American mineralogist and mineral collector. (From Wikipedia)

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