Frederick William Rudler

“ MOLDAVITE, an olive-green or dull greenish vitreous substance, named by Dufrénoy from Moldauthein in Bohemia, where it occurs. It is sometimes cut and polished as an ornamental stone under the name of pseudo-chrysolite, Its bottle-glass colour led to its being commonly called Bouteillenstein, and at one time it was regarded as an artificial product, but this view is opposed to the fact that no remains of glass-works are found in the neighbourhood of its occurrence: moreover pieces of the substance are widely distributed in Tertiary and early Pleistocene deposits in Bohemia and Moravia. ”