Dominican Amber // 15-25 MYO

This intricately tooled butterscotch amber frog has been hand-carved from one solid piece of Baltic amber from Ukraine. Featuring exquisite detail, it will make a fantastic addition ...

This exquisitely detailed cup is entirely and intricately hand-carved out of one solid 153-gram piece of gorgeously-colored Baltic amber from Ukraine. This carved 34 to 55 million year specimen varies in clarity from a more opaque and swirled butterscotch color to incredible, glass-clear translucency in the handle. The artist has realized incredible detail, with flowers, dragonflies, and fish with individually-carved scales in relief against the sides of the cup, these carvings further enhanced by the skin of the amber having been carefully left on and carved around in places for pops of deeper amber color over the carved areas...

Carcharodontosaurus (Dinosaur) tooth in a glass display box From Tegana Formation, North Africa. Cretaceous Age 65 million years Carcharodontosauru...

This fine amber sculpture depicting Jesus Christ is a very rare object. Exemples of this sort can only be found in Germanic countries. Already used during Prehistoric times, amber have always fascinated people. Because of the virtues associated with this material amber was carved as amulets and prophylactic ornaments. As an expression of luxury and means amber was also used for adornments and small figures collected by the upper classes. This fossilized resin was picked on the Baltic Sea shores and soon entered a intense trade system. From the 14th century onwards knights of the Teutonic Order...