Pertrified Wood Slab with Metal Base

15 Million year old petrified palm wood bowl. The slice is 5 x 86 x 69 cm. 55kg.

Amethyst is a quartz containing traces of manganese oxide are responsible for the violet color. Amethyst is usually found in cavities of volcanic rock and is also present in ore corr...

Pyrite (FeS2, iron (II) disulfide) is the most abundant sulfide mineral in the world. It is found literally everywhere, in igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks and in sedimentary rocks. It usually forms cubic crystals, with each crystal having six planes and razor-sharp corners and has a somewhat pale, coppery-yellow metallic luster. The ancient Greeks used pyrite to make fire. If you hit a piece of pyrite with a hard object, sparks will fly. Hence the name, πυρίτης (pyritēs) which means "for fire". For this reason the mineral was also popular for a while in the 16th and 17th centuries. Placing a piece of pyrite against a round file gave you just enough spark to fire a pistol of that era. Although pyrite is still primarily mined to make sulfuric acid, there have been more applications lately. For example, pyrite is found in Lithium batteries and the mineral is also increasingly used in solar panels. In the 1840'smMany of the inexperienced fortune hunters...

110 million years old. Cut into two pieces and placed on a custom made metal base.

Agate is a largely translucent and variety of quartz and subvariety of chalcedony. Agate consists mainly of chalcedony and sometimes in combination with variants of quartz. Think ...

Amethyst is a quartz containing traces of manganese oxide are responsible for the violet color. Amethyst is usually found in cavities of volcanic rock and is also present in ore corr...

Natural Coral set on a custom wood base.

Large Vintage Globe on Wood Base, circa 1920's Decorate an office or a desk with this beautifully preserved antique globe. Crafted in Europe, circa 1920's this piece is mounted on a...

Academic style molecular structure model crafted with painted wood balls strung with metal rods and presented on a classic turned wood base.

Cast iron book press with brass handle and newer wood base. Nice pin striping. Great Condition.

Vintage Large Wood Logs Cross with Metal and Glass decorations. $975 This large cross is made of a beautiful pair of dark wood logs, then extensively decorated with metal elements ...

This antique postal scale is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Canada and date to approximately 1952 and done in the Late Victorian ...