The Star Sapphire

Is this Amanda’s purple ink? Is this connected to the money?

53 responses

1. RRRules 02.12.2010

   Hmm, it seems pretty unlikely that Amanda has something to do with this. But “lear” sounds an awful lot like “leary”. How long ago was this? If it was before Callie’s mom left, maybe she sold it under a false name or the “Y” was rubbed out.
   This could be AV’s pen. Which makes me more definite that Amanda and Mrs Leary are working together.
   Maybe Callie’s mom DOES know AV, and she gave her the $ to send to Callie?
   And some more stuff on name sources, etc.
   “Sapphire-(Eng) gemstone.”
   When I searched gemstone, I got zilch. For gem, I got the following:
   “Gemala-(American) precious oak tree”
   “Gemi-(Indonesian) Modern lifestyle”
   “Gemini-(latin) the twins (there are two greek/roman gods known as the gemini twins, Castor and Pollux)
   “Gemma-(Italian) Precious stone
   I can think of how Gemini might connect-anyone here a twin?
   Or maybe we have to go find an oak tree-does anyone live near Yellowstone National Park? Or find some Native American tree-worshiping reservation.
   Gemi stumps me, though, and Gemma brings us full circle.

   A little bit about Castor and Pollux:
   The twins are the sons of Zeuss. One of the costellations, Gemini (Callie, have you heard of it?) is named after them, with two of the stars being named Castor and Pollux respectively.
   Castor-related to, “to shine, to excel”
   Pollux-very sweet
   Maybe we need to watch the Gemini constellation some night. Maybe Valentine’s day? Let’s go for a picnic on Crab Apple Hill on the 14th! Who wants to come?

2. SuperChk 02.12.2010

   It doesn’t look like there is anything rubbed out on that name.  We should research who he is, maybe that will get us somewhere?

3. ICUPEEKING 02.12.2010

   I agree with SuperChk, finding out who Mr.Edward Lear is will give us more answers on whether or not this is connected to the money Amanda gave Callie.

4. marycaulf 02.12.2010

   Money is Connected with purple ink.

5. Kitty. 02.12.2010

   Maybe RRRules is onto something with the twins thing.
   And I definitely agree that we should have a look into Mr. Edward Lear.

6. AllieK 02.12.2010

   Maybe the name is written in code? Like maybe we have to unscramble it or we have to read every other letter or something.  But like SuperChk said, we should prolly try looking up the name first.

7. LaurelQ 02.12.2010

   Someone has highlighted this for a reason. I would check out who this Edward is. Could his name be an anagram? Edward Lear could be “Drawed Real”, or “Read Red Law” - could there be a red law book in the library that there’s another clue in?

8. Pipper 02.13.2010

   Wow. I really don’t think that Amanda had found and sold. But I reckon it has something to do with Amanda. Maybe She has a friend who’s a miner and they went mining together and found all them. I totally agree with LaurelQ. Amanda, Edward Lear.

   Edward Lear, Callie Leary, is there some sort of connection? The last names sort of sound the same, Lear, Leary?

9. SuperChk 02.13.2010

   check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear

10. AllieK 02.13.2010

    This part sounds interesting
    “Lear’s nonsense books were quite popular during his lifetime, but a rumour circulated that “Edward Lear” was merely a pseudonym, and the books’ true author was the man to whom Lear had dedicated the works, his patron the Earl of Derby. Supporters of this rumour offered as evidence the facts that both men were named Edward, and that “Lear” is an anagram of “Earl”“
    So maybe Amanda has her own Earl that she admires and got the sapphire from.  its interesting how edward Lear was a pseudonym when thats what people were thinking.  maybe theres someone that is a lot like Amanda that she looks up to.  IDK just theories but I think there’s something in there.

11. freedomrings 02.13.2010

    Or maybe it is a clue to a clue.

12. Milana 02.13.2010

    Callie, could you check your old photo books?  Your mom or dad may have known an Edward Leary.  We should try to check other records too.

13. maria_haseem 02.13.2010

    Edward Lear died in1888 ad. How does he have anything to do with Amanda? He was a literary writer, with limericks and literary nonsense, which sounds like Amanda. i think there maybe an inside riddle to this article

    we should look into his limericks. personally i like this one:
    With such a pencil, such a pen.
      You shadow forth to distant men,
      I read and felt that I was there.

14. invisible 02.13.2010

    i looked up Edward Lear and he also did Illustrations and most of his art work had owls . Mabey amanda had known that we would look up this edward lear and find out that most of his drawings are owls.
            well to get to my point .is that nea`s totem is a bird (owl).so mabey its somthing to do with nea.

15. LaurelQ 02.13.2010

    I think maria_haseem is right, and that maybe Amanda liked his quotes. If this Edward Lear is the one that is mentioned in the newspaper article, I don’t think he really had anything to do with jewels. I don’t know if there is anything about stars or star sapphires in his work, though. Maybe we should check that out?

    “Lear’s nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet’s delight in the sounds of words, both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a “diaphanous doorscraper”. A “blue Boss-Woss” plunges into “a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud”. “

    {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear}

    He was famous for imaginary things, random, made up nonsense. It seems very much like Amanda, very out-there.

16. LeeLo 02.13.2010

    What about this?  http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/pussy.html

17. RRRules 02.13.2010

    I noticed that Lear wrote “A book of nonsense”. I took it out of the library and found, in the inside flap, a name. You know, when people go places overnight, etc and don’t want to lose things. Guess what it said?
    A.V.
    And it was written in inside of a key that matches Key One in “Torn Journal Pages”. I compared them.
    And guess what I found on the back inside flap?
    A coyote.

18. *J* 02.13.2010

    Queer!

19. Laurel 02.14.2010

    interesting. you are a great detective!

20. invisible 02.14.2010

    hey read this. this is a story that edward lear made and it talks aboute a owl and pussy cat . i think its somthing to do with nea and mabey hal and callie to. can you guys help me figure out if this has a meaning .

    
    The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
      In a beautiful pea green boat,
    They took some honey, and plenty of money,
      Wrapped up in a five pound note.
    The Owl looked up to the stars above,
      And sang to a small guitar,
    ‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
        What a beautiful Pussy you are,
          You are,
          You are!
    What a beautiful Pussy you are!’

    
    II
    Pussy said to the Owl, ‘You elegant fowl!
      How charmingly sweet you sing!
    O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
      But what shall we do for a ring?’
    They sailed away, for a year and a day,
      To the land where the Bong-tree grows
    And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
      With a ring at the end of his nose,
          His nose,
          His nose,
    With a ring at the end of his nose.

    
    III
    ‘Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
      Your ring?’ Said the Piggy, ‘I will.’
    So they took it away, and were married next day
      By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
    They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
      Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
    And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
      They danced by the light of the moon,
          The moon,
          The moon,
    They danced by the light of the moon.

21. BlueLibby 02.14.2010

    I don`t know if anyone`s noticed this yet, but Edward Lear`s most famous poem is the Owl and the Pussycat. And guess what Nia`s totem animal is? The owl.

    Now we just need to figure out who`s the pussycat…

22. BlueLibby 02.14.2010

    Sudden thought: Could the pussycat be Callie`s mom?

23. AliCat 02.14.2010

    Hey! didn’t Amanda recite this Owl and the PussyCAt poem to Callie once?

24. AllieK 02.14.2010

    Yeah I was just thinking the same thing.  It was in invisible I.  She also had a picture in one of her journals that went along with the poem

25. Squiggles 02.14.2010

    Things that could be linked to do with sapphires and yellow star sapphires:
    It’s septembers birthstone. Anyones birthday september???
    Sapphire is symbolic for the 23rd wedding anniversary
    Star sapphire is symbolic for the 26th wedding anniversary. Are callies mum and dad, or other characters celebrating this…?
    Virgo, Libra and Sagittarius are all linked to sapphires.
    Are any of these characters linked.

    Also Mr Edward Lear like you all said could be E. Lear, then switched is Lear E.
    Good luck everybody!

26. invisible 02.14.2010

    in invisble i she does recite the poem but do you guys remember there at the library and amanda has a piece of YELLOW glass in her hand and then showes callie a page of her diary where she mixed a bunch of YELLOW and got the right color . this YELLOW piece of glass is the color that she imagines is the color of the moon in the poem the owl and pussycat. so what do you think . i think that its somthing to do with the moon

27. BlueRoseGrey 02.14.2010

    i think invisible is on to something with the whole “Owl and the Cat” poem thing. b/c amanda recited that poem in Invisible i. and then Nia’s totem is the Owl. But i dont think that Callie’s mom is the “pussycat” because… well, that would mean that Nia and Callie’s mom were somehow related (not exactly in the family way), but like they knew eachother, y’know? and that just doesn’t really seem right to me.

28. AniStory 02.14.2010

    Find out who is this “Edward Leary” person…

29. maria_haseem 02.15.2010

    Oh my god. What if Amanda didn’t get the money by selling her art?
    What if she had the star sapphire and sold it to the museum?
    A really old yellow star sapphire would cost at least 2 500 dollars, wouldn’t it?

30. SuperChk 02.15.2010

    I think invisible is on to something! Why was she painting yellow in her journal when she recited that poem?  there was a reason, I gave my copy of the book to a friend, can someone look up the page number and figure out why????

31. invisible 02.15.2010

    hey SuperChk it on the pages 181,182, and 183. Amanda found a piece of yellow glass and had painted yellow in her journal. Because she wanted to find the exact shade of yellow that the piece of the sea glass .and she did get the same exact color that the piece of glass was .

            she recited the poem the owl and the pussy-cat because when it says    
    And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
      They danced by the light of the moon,
        The moon,
        The moon,
    They danced by the light of the moon.
    she says ```this yellow is the exact color i always pictured the sand in the moonlight.
    what do you think this means . i think that this yellow was a sapphire yellow . but i think im missing somthing can you help .

32. RRRules 02.15.2010

    I agree with squiggles: E. Lear turns into Lear E.=Leary!
    And squiggles, in answer to your question, I was born in September.

33. ♥MLE♥ 02.15.2010

    I like RRRules idea… with the Leary… and Maybe the E. Lear has something to do with where Amanda is going… or witht he owl and pussycat a reason to know about Callie’s mom like a lot of you have been saying. MAybe this all has to do with Amanda being connected to Lear. too…. I mean what if this person was a family member.. That could mean a LOT

34. demi101 02.16.2010

    i have not been here for the last few weeks. what the update

35. CactusDove 02.16.2010

    You’ve gotta be kidding me? Of course the purple ink is Amanda’s! It’s gotta be! Seriously, how many people have that exact shade purple gel pen?? Well, okay, a lot, but this is no coincidence. Amanda obviously knows your thinking patterns. She KNEW you guys would end up searching past news. I mean, by now we know Amanda is insane. But does that mean that she can’t predict the future?

    We all know this was/is Amanda and is related to the money, in one way or another.

    In other words, don’t write this off as coincidental. In the world of sleuthing, THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES.

36. RRRules 02.17.2010

    Cornelia, what’s the date on that newspaper?

    I went to the museum to check out the sapphire. I didn’t gain much, but it’s from 1884 and guess what it said by the donor?
    “Donated by Lear E. in honor of Gemma Valentino”
    Maybe Edward Lear was in love with Gemma Valentino and gave it to the museum to make her happy?
    Which means, we may have found a connection!

37. Dolphinia 02.17.2010

    Gemma means Precious stone or something like that, right? so if the last name is Valentine, then wouldn’t Amqanda be her descendant? Plus, why did it say Lear, E. and not E. Lear? Was it some old-fashioned style? PS, how old is the town of Orion? I don’t think it existed in 1884! Also, what if the sea glass Amanda was painting wasn’t sea glass at all?

38. SarahB 02.17.2010

    I think it’s kind of obvious from all your detective work that the yellow sea glass was actually the yellow saphire. The “Edward Lear” clue in the name was probably done to remind Callie of the “owl and the pussycat” clue that Amanda gave her when she talked about mixing the colour of yellow.

    The real question now is how did Amanda get her hands on a yellow sapphire? Or, how did she trick the museum into thinking it was a sapphire when it was really a piece of sea glass?

    I’d recommend a trip to the museum, Cornelia. Ask to speak to the curator about it, and to see their accession records for the sapphire. They’ll have any authentication documents with them that came along with the sapphire when it was added to the museum’s collection. Also, they should have the details of the person who sold it to them - it’s probably another dead end, but you never know, it may have an address or contact details for Amanda.

39. freedomrings 02.17.2010

    amanda is not insane
    another member talked of her knowing your thinging patterns
    but i don’t think that is quite it.
    i think that maybe Amanda left little clues everywhere in hopes that most would be find
    she left clues in places where people normally go to look up people that they need more info on

40. invisible 02.17.2010

    what is the name of the article

41. Milana 02.17.2010

    Okay, about the E. Lear turning into Lear E., WHAT DOES IT PROVE?  Does it mean he’s related or a friend of the Leary Family?

    This is kinda pointless, but on the clipping it said that the sapphire was donated to the Orion Museum of Art and Archaeology (OMAA).  If you drop an “A”, you get OMA.  In German, “Oma” means “Grandma”.

    Any comments?

42. MandysBoy 02.17.2010

    The Lear has nothing to do with Leary. Edward Lear was a poet (as many people have been saying) and as noted in Invisible I, Amanda was familiar with his works. Actually, I kind of remember Amanda telling me that her parents almost named her Gemma (some old dead relative, she said) So I started calling her Gemma, teasingly, if anything, and it made her really mad. She was so cute when she got mad at me I did it all the time… until… well… never mind.

43. LaurelQ 02.18.2010

    I agree with SarahB, the sea glass was probably the sapphire. But where did she get a sapphire? It was obviously worth a lot of money, probably more than $2500. Maybe we need to find out who she got it from, and maybe they have some more clues about Amanda…

44. CreatingClues 02.18.2010

    Has anyone searched Gemma Valentino? That could be important.Also, does anyone have a peice of seaglass? You could compare it to Amanda’s.

45. trumpetgirl 02.18.2010

    Remember in one of Callie’s flashbacks, Amanda was showing her a piece of seaglass? Well maybe that seaglass was a star sapphire! They were both yellow after all. And maybe another one of Amanda’s “identities” was Mr. Edward Lear, or Amanda sold it to him. Amanda could have also known him, and asked him to sell the jewel for her, and then give her the money. But yes, I think it has something to do with the money.

46. PoshKat 02.19.2010

    I’m just gonna recap what I’ve read, know and think.

    Edward Lear was a famous nonsense poet, who wrote the Owl and Pussycat, which Amanda recited to Callie (he also included Owls, Nia’s totem, in other poems and illustrations of his). She said a piece of yellow sea-glass she owned was the exact colour she always imagined the sand to be in the poem. It is possible this sea glass is the star sapphire in question.
    It is also possible this has nothing to do with Amanda, but as someone else said, there are no coincedences here.
    A little thought of mine which probably doesn’t mean anything but, if you’re wondering if the purple ink’s Amanda’s, well, I remember reading she had a purple cloak she was fond of, it was how Callie recognised her in one of Hal’s drawings. Might not have anything to do with anything, but, as I said, just a thought.

47. freedomrings 02.19.2010

    I wonder if Amanda is where, or was where Edward Lear used to live.

48. trumpetgirl 02.20.2010

    That’s a good idea. You should check it out.

49. Holly-Marie 02.23.2010

    RRRules said that she saw that it was donated by Lear E in honour of Gemma Valentino and someone else said that Amanda was going to be called Gemma so maybe it was donated by Lear E in honour of Amanda and Lear E could be callies mom so Callies mum is thanking Amanda for her help but why ....

50. roseypants 03.01.2010

    I don’t think this has anything to do with Amanda, although it is interesting. Make sure Hal dosen’t work you to death, because you sure are useful, Cornelia!

51. Rachy-wachy 03.13.2010

    Hmmm, yea ( :

52. Skinnyhippo 03.23.2010

    what you should do is find out who Edward Lear is. Do some research, ask the museum if they could give you any thing on him. Find all the Edward lears in the area, and if you can’t find anything then try edward leary edward may just have a connection to Callie and Amanda!

53. izzap2 05.01.2010

    actually, Eward lear was a poet. he wrote the owl and the pussy cat.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear
    Another of Amanda’s clues?

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