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Anne of Geierstein
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Walter Scott's 1829 novel Anne of Geierstein is a primary literary text, not a scholarly source. Its strength is that it is the specific novel usually credited with creating opal's modern reputation for bad luck, so it is the right citation for that claim about the gemstone's cultural history. Its limit is that the attribution of that cultural effect to this one novel comes from Kunz's 1913 account, and the actual size of the market impact has never been independently measured.
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Reliability tier 2: a primary nineteenth century novel, the specific work credited with a cultural effect though the size of that effect has never been independently measured. NotesThe novel usually credited with creating opal's reputation for bad luck. The attribution derives from Kunz (1913) and the magnitude of the market effect is not independently established.
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AuthorWalter Scott
PublisherCadell and Co., Edinburgh, and Simpkin and Marshall, London
1829 first edition, three volumes, per AbeBooks first-edition cataloguing. Publication Year1829
Source Typeprimary-text
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Gemstones, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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