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MAY NEWSLETTER
Tra la! It's May! That gorgeous holiday... at least, it's feeling like a holiday to us. The weather is perfect, tax season is over, it's time to get the grill and the outdoor seating ready for action! But meanwhile, at the warehouse:
From the Tucson Show, and still fresh: Moroccan ammonites, plump and bumpy and ready to show off on their sturdy cast iron stands.
This hefty cave bear femur from Pleistocene Romania is large and weighty enough to impress any fossil collector.
The section of the human skull called the temporal bone is an incredibly complex study piece, housing the structures forming the middle and inner ear, as well as the mastoid process, the squamous part, the zygomatic process, the petromastoid part, the tympanic part, the styloid process...at this time we have a number of these important study aids.
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Tiny stone beads make up 18 inch necklaces meant to hold mid-sized pendants such as these - though the stone necklaces are also nice on their own. (Yes, they were also offered in our April newsletter - but we still think they'd make a nice Mothers' Day gift.)
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Meanwhile, over in the Bone Room, Texas:
BONE ROOM TEXAS
Welcome to the mammoth month of May where it is mammoth ivory and mammoth teeth all month long.
Mammoth ivory and mammoth teeth make a beautiful substance for jewelry or knife handles. The tooth slices can be dyed for more color while the ivory can be used for a more subtle and elegant look.
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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