A001 A fine and extremely large quartz flame sculpture (Brazil)

An extremely large and impressive crystal, distinguished by its sheer size but also the quality of the quartz from which it was cut.

Weight: 94KG Height: 58cm

A002 Water melon tourmaline crystals

 growing through quartz crystal (Brazil)

Weight: 2.5KG Width: 16cm

A003 Rough Citrine (Brazil)

Citrine is a form of yellow quartz prized for its colour and cutability as a gemstone. In Victorian times it was known as the 'Merchants Stone' and was thought to attract financial abundance into one's life. For this reason small pieces were carried in purses and wallets as a talisman for good fortune. From a Feng Shui perspective, citrine can be placed in the wealth corner of a room or house to help attract abundance.

Weight: 9.5KG Width: 32cm Height: 33cm

A004 An exceptional rutilated smokey quartz freeform (Brazil)

An unusually large and transparent specimen of smokey quartz containing hundreds of needle-like crystals of rutile, sometimes called "Venus Hair".

Weight: 42.3KG Width: 45cm

A005 A pentasrinates crinoid plaque (UK)

Crinoids have graced the oceans for more than 500 millions years. Amongst the most attractive fossils, they played a key role in the ecology of marine invertebrates called echicoderms, which include starfish, sand-dollars, sea-urchins and sea cucumbers.

Weight: 5.5KG Width: 37cm Thickness: 3cm

A006 An extremely rare red Dakotan "coupling" Splenodiscus sp. ammonite with host rock showing some ammonite shell material and fitting neatly

(South Dakota, USA) Cretaceous (110-65 million years old)

A truly remarkable example due to its high red iridescence and natural detachability from the host rock. A museum grade example.

Weight: 19.3KG Width: 31cm

A007 Extremely rare-one-of-a-kind Kranospinctes showing red and green polished shell (Madagascar)

(208-146 million years ago)

An excellent example of the species which unusually stands unaided on the nodules of its shell.

Weight: 28.5KG Width: 43cm

A008 Dakota Ammonite (USA)

 This is an example of the ammonite Hoploscaphites nicolletti of the Fox Hills Formation deposits of South Dakota. During the Cretaceous, much of the Western United States was covered by what is termed the Western Interior Seaway, a broad shallow (100-300 m maximum depth) sea that was home to various aquatic reptiles, fish, and ammonites. Ammonites of this degree of preservation are difficult to come across. The high degree of preservation of its natural mother-of-pearl shell makes it appear to be preserved as opal. This is a consequence of light passing through the various layers of aragonite and conchiolin deposited by the ammonite in life. Notice how the colors change with changing perspective.

Weight: 3KG Height: 26cm

A0137Ocean Jasper sphere (Madagascar)

Jasper is an ornamental rock composed mostly of chalcedony or microcrystalline quartz, in association with other minerals its  colourful bands and patterns create a planetary aesthetic. Jasper was a favourite gem in the ancient world and can be traced back in Hebrew, Assyrian, Persian, Greek and Latin cultures . The name is derived from the Greek and means 'spotted stone'.

Weight: 6.5KG Width: 16.5cm

A014 Petrified wood sphere (Madagascar)

Top quality petrified wood sphere with excellent colour and banding patterns.

Weight: 1.62KG Width: 10cm

A015 A stunning Citrine sphere (Brazil)

Citrine is a form of yellow quartz prized for its colour and cutability as a gemstone. In Victorian times it was known as the 'Merchants Stone' and was thought to attract financial abundance into one's life. For this reason small pieces were carried in purses and wallets as a talisman for good fortune. From a Feng Shui perspective, citrine can be placed in the wealth corner of a room or house to help attract abundance.

Weight: 1.49KG Width: 10cm

A016  Orange Calcite sphere (Mexico)

Bring home a bright sunny day with this gorgeous Orange Calcite Sphere from Mexico. Calcite crystals are highly bi-reflective, that means light is reflected in two different directions. This property gives Calcite a semi-translucent sheen with sparkling reflections.

Weight: 10KG Width: 18cm

A017 Ocean Jasper sphere (Madagascar)

Jasper is an ornamental rock composed mostly of chalcedony or microcrystalline quartz, in association with other minerals its  colourful bands and patterns create a planetary aesthetic. Jasper was a favourite gem in the ancient world and can be traced back in Hebrew, Assyrian, Persian, Greek and Latin cultures . The name is derived from the Greek and means 'spotted stone'.

Weight: 6.4KG Width: 18cm

A019 Ruby in zoisite column (Australia)

Artist: Helmut Wolf

This is a strikingly unusual mineral. The red inclusions are true rubies with many exhibiting their natural hexagonal structure in cross section.

Weight: 1KG Width: 5cm Height: 21cm

A023 A priscacara liops fossil

 in dark walnut frame

(USA)

(56-38 million years old)

Alive approximately 50 million years ago, this is one of the more striking species of fish to be found at the well-known Green River Formation.

Visible Matrix: Width: 27.8cm Height: 22.6cm

A024 A good hyphalosaurus lingyuanensis fossil

in a dark walnut frame

(China)

(154-140 million years old)

The hyphalosaurus lingyuanensis was a freshwater amphibious reptile found in Asia approximately 140 million years ago.

Visible Matrix: Width: 17.1cm Height: 46.6cm

A025 A good keichousaurus hui fossil

in dark walnut frame

(China)

This marine reptile lived about 220 million years ago, and was probably ancestor to other marine reptiles such as the plesiosaur, which became extinct with the dinosaurs.

Visible Matrix: Width: 15.6cm Height: 32.6cm

A026 A good keichousaurus hui fossil

 in a dark solid walnut frame (China)

(245-208 million years old)

This marine reptile lived about 220 million years ago, and was probably ancestor to other marine reptiles such as the plesiosaur, which became extinct with the dinosaurs.

Visible Matrix: Width: 14.1cm Height: 27.1cm