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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
This is the last (or maybe next-to-last) Bone Room newsletter of the year...
Librorum Ridiculorum! Fresh from London and signed by the editor, this delightful little book is a compendium of antiquarian book covers whose authors certainly had no idea how suggestive or absurd their titles would seem a century on...with pithy comments from the editor. An excellent bathroom book. Do people still have bathroom books, or do they just endanger their IPhones?
Amber Jewelry - Ron was obsessed with amber containing inclusions, but somewhere along the line he realized that while he ended up collecting those pieces, amber jewelry could actually be sold. Ron tended toward the simplest, least expensive amber adornments (amber chip necklaces), but we have since found an amber jewelry designer we like, and can offer pieces that have more...finesse.
New Cavallini Jigsaw Puzzles! These are created from the company's stock of vintage (mostly Italian) images, and of course we choose the ones relating to natural history - with the exception of the Cats and Kittens version, which we just couldn't resist for personal reasons.
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New Displayable and Shareable Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles - we found these puzzles whose packaging allows for intriguing display (in glass lab-style jars) or sharing with like-minded friends (in nice cloth bags). Butterflies and flowers, nice for the eyes.
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Signed Books for Christmas...Though people are increasingly turning to e-books, we still stand by good old paper. For one thing, you can't sign an e-book.
We have quite a lot of backstock of science books, most of them signed by the author; for the month of December we are offering Mary Roach books (signed with her spiky signature) for $2- $6 off (sale price as marked); even her latest, Fuzz, is discounted. 'Tis the season to turn all your friends into Mary Roach fans! Sale on through the month of December.
And now a word from Texas:
We have quite a lot of backstock of science books, most of them signed by the author; for the month of December we are offering Mary Roach books (signed with her spiky signature) for $2- $6 off (sale price as marked); even her latest, Fuzz, is discounted. 'Tis the season to turn all your friends into Mary Roach fans! Sale on through the month of December.
And now a word from Texas:
BONE ROOM TEXAS
Scrimshaw today are an anachronistic art born out of the age when seafarers had an abundance of whale bones and teeth during the whaling years. Today, whales are protected and the only way to see many of these pieces of art would be in a museum. These modern pieces are done on fossil walrus teeth and tusks by American artists Linda Layden and the late Peter Kinney. These are beautiful little pieces of art.
And if you like scrimshaw art then check out these pendants scrimshawed on smaller fossil walrus teeth.
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Ron Cauble, founder of The Bone Room, was obsessed with inclusions in amber. At Fossil and Mineral Shows he would typically be found seated at an amber dealer's booth, a great pile of amber pieces before him, peering through a loupe at the world inside each piece.
Over the years, some of the pieces were sold to collectors and scientists (most notably, to George Poinar, recognized amber expert and author) - but Ron was always a better collector than salesman, and his collection grew to museum backroom proportions.
Finally we are getting a good start on cataloging and photographing his enormous collection of amber and copal, and offering this work of love and obsession to the public. We think Ron would approve.
Over the years, some of the pieces were sold to collectors and scientists (most notably, to George Poinar, recognized amber expert and author) - but Ron was always a better collector than salesman, and his collection grew to museum backroom proportions.
Finally we are getting a good start on cataloging and photographing his enormous collection of amber and copal, and offering this work of love and obsession to the public. We think Ron would approve.
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