File:Star of Burma.jpg

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Description The Star of Burma ruby, a c. 1930s fashionable ruby. Unknown fate or ownership.
Author or
copyright owner
Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Doyle auction booklet, originally from Vogue magazine
Date of publication 1935
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Star of Burma
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s):

The article has information about the jewel and its historical ad. This is the only color photo of the gem known to exist.

Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
The jewel is lost to historical records, and no free photographs exist.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) The image will only be used in the one article, in the lowest usable resolution.
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
The advertisement is old and the gem lost, so there is no market value being lost.
Other information


  1. No free image exists that would identify the article's subject.
  2. The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
  3. The image is only used sparingly and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy.
  4. The image has been published outside Wikipedia with permission from the copyright holder.
  5. The image meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
  6. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
  7. The image is used in the article wiki-linked in the section title.
  8. The image is significant in illustrating the subject of the article, facilitating critical commentary as it provides an immediate relevance to the reader more capably than the textual description alone.
  9. The image is used in the article namespace.
  10. The image has a brief description that identifies the image, and provides attribution to the copyright holder.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Star of Burma//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star_of_Burma.jpgtrue

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current18:50, 23 October 2016Thumbnail for version as of 18:50, 23 October 2016307 × 400 (48 KB) (talk | contribs)Uploading a non-free work, as object of commentary using File Upload Wizard
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