H983 19th century Gem quality pink Tourmaline on

Gem quality pink Tourmaline on a Lucite base

19th century Italian church offertory bag with ecclesiastical metal trim and decorated with titanium kyanite and a pyrite rosette with or without lucite

5" W  Price: $4500

18th century Italian Florence candlestick mounted with a fishtail selenite and decorated with chalcedony rosettes and ecphora shells

H983 19th century Gem quality pink Tourmaline onPetrified wood with hand forged Italian style Iron appliqu. Petrified wood are fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation, the result of trees having completely transformed to stone through the process of permineralization, a thousand year process. All organic materials have been replaced with minerals, such as quartz, while retaining the original stem tissue. Unlike other fossils that are usually compressions, petrified wood is a three dimensional