H983 19th century 19th century Italian church offertory

19th century Italian church offertory bag with ecclesiastical metal trim and decorated with titanium kyanite and a pyrite rosette with or without lucite

Gem quality pink Tourmaline on a Lucite base

Size: 78" long  x 36" wide

18th century Italian church tassel on a pyrophyllite base

H983 19th century 19th century Italian church offertoryPetrified wood with hand forged Italian style Iron appliqu. Petrified wood are fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation, the result of trees having completely transformed to stone through the process of permineralization, a thousand year process. All organic materials have been replaced with minerals, such as quartz, while retaining the original stem tissue. Unlike other fossils that are usually compressions, petrified wood is a three dimensional