Edwardian California Garnet Specimen art deco Let all your '70s Miami

Let all your '70s Miami big shades DJ Kool Herc proto-Hip-Hop disco-inspired bell-bottomed dreams come true (I've been wearing this one for a good few days now and it's confirmed excellent

however when in the context of mourning it came to represent the triumph of victory over death and all the joys of heaven

Seven cameo busts - carved from coloured Vesuvian lava and coral - are set in simple rub-over settings

these eyes use a concave mirror surface of guanine crystals to direct and focus the light - something of an innovation in the world of molluscs

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Edwardian California Garnet Specimen art deco Let all your '70s MiamiAn interesting little oddity that took me an age to figure out but I got there. It's a rough, uncut spessartine garnet crystal from the Little Three Mine in Ramona, California. This pendant dates from the very early days of mining in Ramona. The crystal weighs 16. 4 carats and it's mounted in a yellow gold cage likely a souvenir recovered by one of the pioneer miners. Spessartine garnet is an orange coloured gemstone named after the Spessart mountain