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"Tree Jade" Petrified Wood Specimen
Located in Chicago, IL
Like scholars' rocks, petrified, or fossilized, wood is appreciated for its natural beauty. Sometimes called "Tree Jade," petrified wood is thought to bring peace and prosperity to its surroundings. Each log has its own unique patterns of fossilized moss, bark, and the scars of a lifetime. These facets bring to mind a fascinating combination of organic mortality and preserved permanence. We keep them in their raw, unworked state, using the logs in...
Category
Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Petrified Wood
Rhodochrosite Stalactites From Argentina
Located in New York, NY
These unique rhodochrosite stalactites from Argentina are a rare find. Formed from precipitation off of manganese-rich rocks inside the tunnels of Argentinian silver...
Category
Argentine Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal
$7,385 Sale Price
30% Off
18th Century Italian Fragment with Chalcopyrite, Calcite Crystals, and Kyanite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian fragment with chalcopyrite on a druzy crystal matrix with calcite crystals and gold-plate kyanite.
Th...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Amethyst Black Druze Quartz or “Black Galaxy Amethyst” on Metal Stand Decor
Located in London, GB
An exquisite black amethyst druzy quartz cluster with polished stalactites.
Rare and notoriously difficult to find, this stunning and unique black amethyst druzy quartz, is known...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Amethyst, Quartz, Agate
18th Century Italian Mecca Vase with Mica, Tourmaline, and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian mecca vase mounted with mica and tourmaline and adorned natural-forming baroque pearls. The mica and baroque pearls perfe...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
$937 Sale Price
25% Off
18th Century 'Florence Fragment' with a Calcite Crystal Cluster on Bobeche
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with a calcite crystal cluster in matrix mounted on a Italian glass bobeche base.
The fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved f...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Fragment Mounted on Phantom Optical Calcite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with gold mica and baroque pearls on a phantom optical calcite base.
The fragment originally came from a historical church in Italy. It is adorned with...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Genuine Natural Spinosaurus Dinosaur Tooth
Located in New York, NY
Genuine Spinosaurus (Dinosaur) tooth.
Spinosaurus (meaning "spine lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa, during the upper Albian to upper T...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
Rare Natural Quartz Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Salt-like, light turquoise color natural quartz sculpture with stand. Measures: 8.5” /L x 6.5” /D x 7” /H without stand.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Quartz
Mica in an Albite Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Mica in an albite matrix.
Albite is a type of feldspar mineral. Mica is formed from silicate which creates the delicate, glimmery sheets that combine and layer together. This combination of minerals creates a rare, museum-quality formation. This is also a very big specimen and weighs approximately 54 lbs or 24.5 kg.
The albite and mica create a rare, sculptural, natural formation.
Category
American Organic Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
$2,950
Genuine Natural Barite on Calcite Pseudomorph from, India
Located in New York, NY
From Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
Large pale snow white pseudomorph crystal of gem transparent calcite crystals coated with sparkling barite micro crystals. In pristine conditi...
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Green organic formation
Located in London, GB
A wonderful display piece showing a prominent thick stalactite at the centre,
covered with glass-like green-brown druzy quartz. The lower border
polished to reveal a wonderful sea gr...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Genuine Natural Pre Historic Basilousaurus Whale Tooth
Located in New York, NY
This well preserved tooth is 40 to 34 million years old from the Late Eocene Period. Basilosaurus was first thought to be a reptile but was later identified as a genus of ancient cet...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
Small Bluish-Grey Quartz with Cut Stalactite
Located in London, GB
A pleasing small display piece showcasing bluish druzy quartz covering a stalactite, which is cut and polished at the tip to reveal the floral interior structure.
This piece was l...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Egg Shaped Amethyst Geode with Calcite
Located in London, GB
A beautiful mostly complete egg shaped geode with a prominent calcite
to the left, partially polished. The amethyst crystals with high peaks and
of intense purple. The thick amethy...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Natural Gogotte Specimen Formation
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
A Gogotte Formation
Of natural form, dating from the Oligocene period (30 Million years ago). Beguiling natural mineral formation, they are the result of calcium carbonate binding w...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
White Quartz Geode Slice with Amethyst Formations in the Centre on Metal Stand
Located in London, GB
Stunning white quartz, amethyst and agate slice. This piece is a beautiful natural wonder. A thick band of white quartz with radiating crystal structure holds a heart of lilac amethy...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Hildoceras Yorkshire, England Ammonite & Bronze Stand
By Modenature
Located in Scorton, GB
A magnificent example of a classic Jurassic ammonite from the North Yorkshire coastline of North East England. Now suspended on THE FOSSIL STORE™ custom AES bronze stand...
Category
British Prehistoric Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Limestone, Bronze
Natural Gogotte Specimen Formation
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
A Gogotte Formation
Of natural form, dating from the Oligocene period (30 Million years ago). Beguiling natural mineral formation, they are the result of calcium carbonate binding w...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
"Cauliflower" Fossil Agate Coral with Baroque Pearls and Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
"Cauliflower" fossil agate coral adorned with natural-forming baroque pearls and shells.
Fossil agate coral is Florida's state stone and is known for its unique formation that can take place over 20 million years. It's a natural gemstone that is created when prehistoric coral is gradually replaced with agate. This is a complete piece of fossil coral head...
Category
American Organic Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Coral
$2,625 Sale Price
25% Off
Natural Quartz Point on White Feldspar Crystal From Himalaya Mountains, India
Located in New York, NY
Huge, museum-quality, Himalayan quartz generator crystal, sitting on a large, white Feldspar crystal, both perfectly terminated with top luster. This pi...
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal, Quartz, Other
$15,000 Sale Price
28% Off
Small Indonesian Petrified Wood Slab – Dipterocarpus Species
Located in Middleburg, VA
Small Indonesian Petrified Wood Slab – Dipterocarpus Species.
This exquisite small petrified wood slab hails from Indonesia and dates to the late Tertiary period, approximately 20 m...
Category
Indonesian Organic Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Petrified Wood
Citrine Crystals in Matrix and Mounted on an 18th Century Italian Gilt Base
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Citrine crystals in matrix mounted on a gilded 18th century Italian base. The citrine crystal specimen is adorned with baroque pearls and it sits in a bed of crushed crystals and coo...
Category
Italian Organic Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Large North African Selenite Desert Rose Crystal Specimen
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A large selenite desert rose crystal specimen, originating from North Africa, presented on one of our exclusive large bases for display.
With its organic form and 360-degree crystal...
Category
African Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal
Fluorite with Sphalerite, Denton Mine, Harris Creek Dist., S. Illinois, USA
Located in New York, NY
Fluorite with Sphalerite, Denton Mine, Harris Creek Dist., S. Illinois, USA
13 cm tall x 13 cm wide
ex-collection Ross Lillie
Fluorite from this classic Illinois mine is highly ...
Category
American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
Golden Barite with Marcasite Crystals from Nandan County, Hechi, Guangxi, China
Located in New York, NY
From Nandan County, Hechi, Guangxi, China
Complex intersecting formation of lustrous gem translucent golden barite crystals with lustrous faces and sharp modified rhombic faces.
...
Category
Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal, Other
$5,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Beige Prehistoric Stone Sculpture, Indonesia
Located in New York, NY
Prehistoric Indonesian stone sculpture.
Shape and holes formed from years of exposure to underwater currents.
Category
Indonesian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Rare Natural Amethyst Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Natural amethyst sculpture with stand.
Measures: 10.5”/L x 8.5”/D x 4”/H without stand.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Small amethyst cluster
Located in London, GB
A small amethyst cluster with interesting sprinkling of creamy calcite crystals.
Polished at the edges.
This piece was legally and ethically sourced directly in the prestigious mine...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Gogotte, natural sculpture from Fontainebleau, France.
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
This desk size Gogotte is an authentic proof of nature's artistic skills in sculpture.
We still don't understand fully how these natural sculptures, made of more than 99% of pure si...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Sandstone
Genuine Natural Fossilized Ammonite Cluster '11 Lbs'
Located in New York, NY
Museum quality, 8" tall stone containing many small ammonite fossils. The ammonites are of the species Promicroceras marstonense and are Lower Jurassic (~200 million years old) in age. The piece has been painstakingly prepared with mechanical tools to expose all of the individual ammonite fossils on one side.
Ammonites were predatory mollusks that resembled a squid with a shell. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
18th Century 'Florence Fragment' Base with Fossil Shells in Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian 'Florence Fragment' base topped with a variety of fossil shells in matrix and mounted on a rock coral base.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was f...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral
Heart-Shaped Pink Quartz Formation
Located in London, GB
This heart shaped formation has a beautiful contrast of a polished white
quartz exterior with an interior laden with pink druzy stalactites.
This ...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Other Worldly Landscape with Grey-Lilac Druze
Located in London, GB
A stunning half geode containing many tall stalactites resembling an other
worldly landscape. The stalactites covered in grey-lilac druzy quartz. the borders
polished.
This piec...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
$20,000 Sale Price
42% Off
Rare Natural Quartz Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Salt-like, pinkish brown natural sculpture with copper on the surface. Polish brass stand. Measures: 11.5” /L x 7.5” /W x 5” /H.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Quartz
Chrome Diopside Samax Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns., Tanzania
Located in New York, NY
Chrome Diopside
Samax Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns.,
Simanjiro Dist., Manyara Region, Tanzania
6.3cm wide x 4.5cm tall
In 2007, some of the highest quality chrome diopside sp...
Category
Tanzanian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
Black Hematite with a Blanket of White Quartz
Located in London, GB
A stunning an unusual formation of white quartz on top of a black hematite.
This beautiful and delicate piece presents a rough piece with a stalactite of black hematite covered w...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
$1,440 Sale Price
41% Off
18th Century Italian Sunray Mounted on a Yellow Hematoid Quartz Heart
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural Sacred Heart - 18th century Italian sunray mounted on a yellow hematoid heart and adorned with yellow crystal quartz points. The piece is inspired by "The Sacred Heart" in...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Pink Heulandite with Stilbite on Chalcedony Matrix from Maharashtra, India
Located in New York, NY
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Large cabinet geode of bright pink heulandites in translucent wheat sheave aggregates intergrown with pink stilbite bow crystals all on powder bl...
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal, Other
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Authentic Carcharodontosaurus Tooth in Display Box (.75" x .25" x 2" 16.6 Grams)
Located in New York, NY
Carcharodontosaurus (Dinosaur) tooth in a glass display box From Tegana Formation, North Africa.
Cretaceous Age 65 million years
Carcharodontosauru...
Category
African Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
Mimetite from San Pedro Mine, San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Located in New York, NY
Mimetite from San Pedro Mine, San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Well defined undamaged specimen of olive yellow-green ball aggregates of mimetite cr...
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal, Other
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Natural Gogotte Specimen Formation
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
A Gogotte Formation - Running
Fontainbleau, France
Oligocene Period
Light Weathering Measurement Inc Stand.
Gogottes are beautiful and beguiling mineral formations. They are rare ...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
17th Century 'Florence Fragment' with Tourmaline & Crystals on Petrified Wood
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian vase with black tourmaline and crystals on a petrified wood base
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic Florence Flood of 1966. This piece is available for purchase but will be premiering in The Florence Fragment Collection with Museo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy on October 12th and can be shipped following the end of the exhibition on November 10th. This is a collection of historical fragment...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Tourmaline
18th Century Rococo Italian 'Florence Fragment' with Fossil Shells and Barnacles
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment topped with natural forming clusters of fossil shells and barnacles. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the histori...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Natural Rock Crystal Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Natural rock crystal sculpture with stand.
18 inch x 8 inch x 6 inch without stand.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Natural Copper Crystal Cluster from Hubei, China
Located in New York, NY
Sculptural formation of sharp, distinct copper crystals from Daye Co., Hubei Province, China. The copper looks beautiful under magnification. A lovely display piece for natural eleme...
Category
Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal, Other, Copper
$9,000 Sale Price
25% Off
17th Century 'Florence Fragment' Base with Natural Coral Head
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian 'Florence Fragment' base from Tuscany topped with a naturally formed coral head.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the Fl...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral, Gold Leaf
Natural Gogotte Specimen Formation
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
A Gogotte Formation
Of natural form, dating from the Oligocene period (30 Million years ago). Beguiling natural mineral formation, they are the result of calcium carbonate binding w...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Polished Petrified Wood Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
A really nice polished petrified wood sculpture, circa pre-history. Brightly colored tan, brown and cream tones with naturally formed patterns caused by fossilization over millions ...
Category
Unknown Organic Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Petrified Wood
Organic Modern Petrified Wood Side Table with Pyrite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Petrified wood side table adorned with pyrite.
Petrified wood is a special type of fossilized wood. This type of mineralized petrified wood went through an intricate process that to...
Category
American Organic Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Pyrite
$1,387 Sale Price
25% Off
Rock Crystal Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Natural rock crystal cluster sculpture with brass stand.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
$1,300
Sculptural Geode Specimen with Natural Forming Crystal & Baroque Pearl in Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A rare sculptural quartz geode in matrix with a natural formed crystal and baroque pearl.
This specimen is from the Appalachian region of North Carolina. This was dug by hand and in...
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
$1,162 Sale Price
25% Off
Oval Shaped Deep Purple Amethyst Geode Section
Located in London, GB
This small oval shaped formation has particularly deep purple, large amethyst crystals separated by a streak of white quartz, exposed from a tangentially cut and polished stalactite....
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
18th Century Italian Crucifix on a Tourmaline in Crystal on a Obsidian Base
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian crucifix with a hand carved figure of Christ decorated with tourmaline in crystal quartz on a polished obsidian base.
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Pair of 18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Candlesticks with Polished Coral & Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A pair of 18th-century Italian gold leaf candlestick tops with polished agate coral and baroque pearls. The hand-carved, gold leaf candlestick tops originally came from a pair of can...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Coral, Gold Leaf
17th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' Church Vase with Free-Formed Copper
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian 'Florence Fragment' church vase topped with preserved, naturally free-forming copper.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from th...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Copper
Cut and Polished Heart with Cotton Candy Inclusion
Located in London, GB
An attractive geode section cut and polished into a heart shape, revealing
white quartz layers with various agate layers. A cavity to the left with pink
druze resembling cotton can...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Polished Agate Cathedral with a Tangerine Crystal Point
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Polished agate cathedral with a tangerine crystal point.
Agate is characterized by its fineness of grain and brightness of color. These slabs are clas...
Category
American Organic Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Rock Crystal, Quartz
$637 Sale Price
25% Off
Brown quartz stalactites with fiery interior
Located in London, GB
Several brownish quartz stalactites grace this small formation, the frontal
one cut longitudinally to reveal a fiery interior.
This piece was legally and ethically sourced directly ...
Category
Uruguayan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Genuine Natural Pre Historic Basilousaurus Whale Tooth on Matrix
Located in New York, NY
This well preserved tooth is 40 to 34 million years old from the Late Eocene Period. Basilosaurus was first thought to be a reptile but was later identified as a genus of ancient cet...
Category
Moroccan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
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