J433 Retail smoky quartz

smoky quartz

Historically

Each one is hand-carved and gilded

were it not for Florida's repeated glaciations exhuming these semi-precious anomalies of water and time

The 18th century fragment is hand-carved and painted and originally came from a church in Venice

J433 Retail smoky quartzGeode from the Keokuk, Iowa area containing a variety of minerals with a quartz druzy interior. It took around 240 million years to create the beautiful quartz crystals covering the interior walls of the Keokuk geode. The large number of mineral inclusions and the exquisite crystal groups that they form have made the Keokuk Geodes some of the most beautiful and sought after of all geodes by museums and collectors all over the world Size: 11" wide x 7"