K934 Retail Polished Haliotis Iris shell with

Polished Haliotis Iris shell with natural forming baroque pearls on a petrified wood base

19th century Italian church offertory bag with ecclesiastical metal trim and decorated with coordinating gold leaf shells and a natural forming pearls with or without lucite

40" wide x 7" deep x 40" high

5" deep x 13" high

Doubly terminated crystals are incredibly rare

K934 Retail Polished Haliotis Iris shell with18th century Italian sunburst decorated with calcite crystals on a calcite crystal base in matrix of sphalerite. The 18th century gold leaf sunray originally part of a halo or sunburst motif in an artistic depiction in a historic church. The calcite crystal is from Elmwood Mine in Tennessee. It is an example of the worlds finest crystallized calcite. With the unusual formation of sphalerite, it is unequaled by those from any other part of the world