Alexander Malcolm Jacob

Wrote to JLG from India. Needs more research

Full Name: Alexander Malcom Jacob

"Alexander Malcolm Jacob (1849 in Izmir, Turkey – 1921) was a diamond and gemstone trader in Simla, India."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Malcolm_Jacob

From Pujan Gandhi's travel albums essay: Instead, on the advice of Marion Crawford, a friend who learned Sanskrit, Isabella and Jack visited the famous jeweler and antique dealer Alexander M. Jacob (real name, Iskandar Meliki bin Ya’qub al Birri, 1849–1921), from whom she acquired two bazubands (armbands), “certified to have belonged to the Queen of Delhi!”