M148 google 5” wide x 2

5” wide x 2

hand carved in Italy

18th century Italian gold leaf fragment with coordinating baroque pearl on a free-forming black obsidian mineral with a polished face

and natural-forming baroque pearls

11" wide x 3

M148 google 5” wide x 218th century Italian 'Florence Fragment' with a calcite crystal cluster in matrix of sphalerite. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966. The calcite crystal cluster with sphalerite is from Elmwood Mine in Tennessee. It is an example of the worlds finest crystallized calcite. With the unusual formation of sphalerite, it is unequaled by those from any other part of the