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DS001
1930's Buick car mascot
in chromed white metal
mounted on a Lapis Lazuli
base
(Afghanistan)
Lapis is a gemstone straight
out of fairy tales of the
Arabian Nights. It was
introduced to Europe by
Alexander the Great, where
the colour was called
"ultramarine" meaning "from
beyond the seas". Its modern
name is a compound of
lapis, the Latin word
for "stone", and the Arabic
word azuli, denoting
the colour.
Total weight:
2.25KG
Width:
16cm
Height:
15cm
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DS002
Polished Lapis Lazuli
freeform (Afghanistan)
Lapis lazuli is a rock
containing a number of
minerals. Its quality and
value is determined by the
colour and abundance of the
blue mineral lazurite. Other
minerals occurring in lapis
lazuli include hauyne,
sodalite, wollastonite,
pyroxenes, amphiboles and
calcite. Traces of pyrite
pepper the rock with an
unmistakable, golden-yellow
sparkle.
Weight:
7.1KG
Width:
17cm
Height:
32cm |
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DS003
An unusually large
polished Lapis Lazuli
freeform (Afghanistan)
Straight from the stories of the
thousand and one nights, lapis was
introduced to Europe by Alexander
the Great, where the colour was
called "ultramarine" meaning "from
beyond the seas". Its modern name is
a compound of lapis, the
Latin word for "stone", and the
Arabic word azuli, denoting
the colour.
Weight:
58KG
Width:
44cm
Height:
48cm |
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DS004
Polished Lapis Lazuli
freeform
(Afghanistan)
As lapis lazuli (arabic-latin blue stone) is
composed of several minerals - if only in small
quantities (augite, calcite, diopside, mica,
hauynite, hornblende, pyrite) - some experts
consider it not to be a mineral, but a rock; the
main ingredient being lazurite.
Weight:
5.48KG
Width:
20cm
Height:
24cm |
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DS005
Labradorite
freeform (one face polished)
(Madagascar)
It is increasingly
difficult to find specimens with strong
colour—this is an exemplary labradorite
specimen. The rough “skin” is still visible on
the reverse side while the fine polish reveals
the brilliant play-of-colour to the front face,
known as labradorescence due to twinning
on a microscopic level when viewed from a
variety of directions, this optical phenomenon
produces flashes of blue, violet, green and
yellow.
d yellow
Weight:
76.5KG
Dimensions:
70
x 46 x 15cm |
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DS006
Tiger iron bowl (Australia)
Tiger iron is one of the oldest
rocks on Planet Earth. Composed of
black hematite, red jasper and
golden tiger-eye, this rock is
between two and three billion years
old. It is of sedimentary origin,
laid down layer by layer. Over time
it has been subjected to great
pressure and heat resulting in the
dramatic folds seen in this
magnificent object.
Weight:
4.5KG
Width:
31.5cm
Height:
21.5cm |
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DS007
A large
fossilised wood cigar/soap dish
(Madagascar)
This is an ancient tree trunk that has been
turned to stone. These ancient conifers lived in
a region which had a moist and probably warm
climate. Washed from upland areas where they
grew, the logs accumulated on the delta flats
where they where buried by sand and silt and
layers of volcanic ash. This ash was the source
of silica which helped to mineralize the logs
after burial. The logs where replaced by quartz
or silica coloured with oxides of iron and
manganese.
Weight:
11.4KG
Width:
34cm
Height:
8cm |
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DS008
Pyrite heart
(Peru)
This amazing heart shaped pyrite carving has
been fashioned from very high grade pyrite from
Peru. Chemically pyrite is a combination of iron
and sulphur and has been mined as an iron ore
for centuries.
Width:
15cm |
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DS009
A quartz on
charoite sculpture
(designed and carved by Helmut Wolf)
Charoite is an unusual mineral of rare
occurrence. It is found to date in only one
location, along the Chary River at Aldan in
Russia. It forms as a swirling pattern of
interlocking crystals. This piece also contains
black aegirine, golden tinaksite (rare) and
white quartz.
Height:
55cm |
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DS010
A sodalite and ruby in zoisite
on aventurine sculpture
(designed and carved by Helmut Wolf)
With detachable base
Height:
51.5cm |
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DS011
A highly detailed dolerite carving of a
bull seal
with
a display cushion and a marble socle
(Germany)
Height:
20.5cm without display base |
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DS012
Sandstone
slice picture
with
acrylic display stand
(Utah, USA)
Only a few localities around the world produce
this amazingly-patterned sedimentary rock, India
being another notable example. The sand was
deposited in a wind-blown environment which
explains the extraordinary picture-like effect.
Width:
22cm
Height:
34cm |
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DS013
Rose quartz bowl
(Madagascar)
Rose quartz is a type of quartz
which exhibits a pale pink to rose
red hue. The colour is usually
considered as due to trace amounts
of
titanium,
iron,
or
manganese,
in the massive material.
Dimensions:
52 x 46 x 27cm |
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DS014
Golden rutilated quartz bowl (Brazil)
This bowl has been expertly carved from an
exceptional specimen of hight quality transparent rutilated quartz containing hundreds of needle-like
crystals of golden rutile, sometimes called "Venus
or Angel
Hair".
Width:
19cm |
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DS015
Aventurine bowl (India)
(Designed and carved in Germany by Helmut Wolf)
This bowl has been carved using very high
quality aventurine massive. This exquisite object has
extraordinary translucency under bright light.
Width:
21.5cm |
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DS016
Malachite bowl
(Democratic Republic of
Congo)
(Designed and carved in Germany)
This bowl has been carved from a very high
quality malachite block. This object has
beautiful patterns and a sensuous shape.
Width:
21.5cm |
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DS017
Rose quartz flame
(Madagascar)
Rose quartz has been used as a
gemstone and as other ornamental and
religious objects for thousands of
years. Historically, it is a symbol
of love and beauty. The name quartz
comes from the Saxon word
querklufterz which meant cross vein
ore.
Rose quartz is one of the more
desirable varieties of quartz. The
pink can be almost rose red. The
colour seems to be caused by iron
and titanium impurities.
Weight:
80.5kg
Dimensions:
74 x 38 x 32cm |
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DS018
Giant sodalite point
(Brazil)
Sodalite
is a rich royal blue
mineral
widely enjoyed as an
ornamental
gemstone.
A
light, relatively hard yet fragile mineral,
sodalite is named after its
sodium
content; in
mineralogy
it may be classed as a
feldspathoid.
Well known for its blue colour, sodalite may
also be grey, yellow, green, or pink and is
often mottled with white veins or patches.
Weight:
177kg
Dimensions:
155 x 51 x 34cm |
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DS019
Quartz crystal obelisks
(Brazil)
Obsidian bases
(Mexico)
A
world class pair of matching obelisks cut from
the same piece of quartz producing a mirror
image effect. Both obelisks and bases have been carved and polished in
Germany.
Weight:
14KG
(obelisks pair)
Weight:
12KG
(bases pair)
Height:
69cm
(obelisk)
Height:
17cm
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DS020
Malachite obelisk pair
(Congo)
Malachite is a copper carbonate mineral.
This green-coloured mineral crystallizes in the
monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms
botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses.
The
stone's name derives (via Latin: molochītis,
Middle French: melochite, and Middle English
melochites) from Greek Μολοχίτης λίθος
molochitis lithos, "mallow-green stone". The
mineral was given this name due to its
resemblance to the leaves of the Mallow plant.
Weight:
4.8kg each
Dimensions:
50 x 10 x 10cm |
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DS021
A blue chalcedony Budha sculpture (Burma)
Chalcedony
is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed
of very fine intergrowths of the minerals quartz
and moganite.
Weight:
0.35KG
Length:
11cm
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DS022
Citrine and quartz carved
snail
(Brazil)
AA
highly detailed carving carved in Germany.
Weight:
0.4KG
Length:
12cm
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DS023
Amethyst hedgehog
(Uruguay)
Only one German artist is known to produce this
detailed carving.
Weight:
0.1KG
Width:
6cm
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DS024
Charoite bear
(Siberia)
Charoite is an unusual mineral of rare
occurrence. It is found to date in only one
location, along the Chary River at Aldan in
Russia. It forms as a swirling pattern of
interlocking crystals.
Weight:
0.66KG
Length:
12cm
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DS025
Ruby zoisite bear
(India)
This bear has been carved from a strikingly
unusual mineral specimen. The red material are
true rubies.
Weight:
0.64KG
Length:
12cm
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D026
Malachite geode
(Congo)
Malachite is a semi-precious stone
and also a
valuable copper ore, hydrous copper
carbonate. It is responsible for the
green colour of tarnished copper and
bronze. Because of its distinctive
bright green colour and its presence
in the weathered zone of nearly all
copper deposits, malachite serves as
a prospecting guide for that metal.
Malachite has been used as an
ornamental stone and as a gemstone
Weight: 21KG Width: 47 x 35cm
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D027
Polished malachite piece
(Congo)
Malachite is a copper carbonate
found in oxidised zones of copper
deposits. Limestone, or dolomite,
around the copper deposits will be
the source of the carbonate. A large
belt of copper deposits - actually
called the “copperbelt” - is
stretching from Katanga into Zambia.
The Copperbelt is one of the richest
sources of copper in the world.
Cobalt, selenium, silver, and gold
are also produced in this belt.
Weight: ~70KG Dimensions: 57 x 48 x 20cm
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DS028
Malachite inlay table top
(Congo)
Malachite is a copper carbonate mineral.
This green-coloured mineral crystallizes in the
monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms
botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses.
The
stone's name derives (via Latin: molochītis,
Middle French: melochite, and Middle English
melochites) from Greek Μολοχίτης λίθος
molochitis lithos, "mallow-green stone". The
mineral was given this name due to its
resemblance to the leaves of the Mallow plant.
Dimensions:
73
x 70 x 2cm
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DS029
Petrified wood oak table
(Oregon, USA)
These slices undergo fifteen stages of polishing
to produce the mirror finish. This helps to
reveal the extraordinary preservation and
natural colour within this particular wood slab.
Weight:
80KG
Width:
117.5cm
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DS030
Petrified wood monkey puzzle
table
(Arizona,
USA)
A
slice of the tree of exceptional quality and
rich red colouration. Such is the quality of
preservation, that the original individual wood
cells have been preserved and are visible under
magnification.
Weight:
70KG
Width:
115cm
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