Darwin Glass Dendrites All with sterling silver hooks

All with sterling silver hooks

Good piece to cut stones for jewellery making

The three star sapphires are from Ratnapura

This is a great specimen mined in the 1070's/80's this piece comes from an old collection

Beautiful petite cushion cut Killiecrankie gemstones set in 18k yellow solid gold

Darwin Glass Dendrites All with sterling silver hooksThe day it rained glass. Around 800 thousand years ago a large nickel iron meteorite that was once part of the core of an ancient planet slammed into the isolated west coast of Tasmania south of Queenstown, forming a large impact crater. This big old lump of space rock was travelling at an estimated 22 thousand kilometers per second. Before it had even hit the ground the heat and pressure waves generated from its passage through the Earths atmosphere